Known Causes of Trouble with GCC

This section describes known problems that affect users of GCC. Most of these are not GCC bugs per seif they were, we would fix them. But the result for a user may be like the result of a bug.

Some of these problems are due to bugs in other software, some are missing features that are too much work to add, and some are places where peoples opinions differ as to what is best.

• and with certain linkers, assemblers and debuggers.
• compliant with the ISO C standard.

:: _actual-bugs:

• Actual Bugs We Havent Fixed Yet
• Interoperation
• Incompatibilities of GCC
• Fixed Header Files
• Standard Libraries
• Disappointments and Misunderstandings
• Common Misunderstandings with GNU C++
  • Name Lookup, Templates, and Accessing Members of Base Classes
  • Temporaries May Vanish Before You Expect
  • Implicit Copy-Assignment for Virtual Bases
• Certain Changes We Dont Want to Make
• Warning Messages and Error Messages

:: _interoperation:

:: _incompatibilities:

:: _fixed-headers:

:: _standard-libraries:

:: _disappointments:

:: _c++-misunderstandings:

:: _non-bugs:

:: _warnings-and-errors: