PointerType Bug

[rspencer]

I just created a slice file that produces C++ code that does not compile. The offending slice code is this:

class Type;
class PointerType extends Type
{
Type otherType;
};

The generated C++ code looks like this:

class PointerType : virtual public ::Type
{
public:

typedef PointerTypePrx ProxyType;
typedef PointerTypePtr PointerType;

//....
}

My gcc compiler produces an error like this:

error: ISO C++ forbids nested type ‘PointerType’ with same name as enclosing class
error: PointerType::PointerType’ has the same name as the class in which it is declared

This isn't a huge deal, I can just rename the class.

However, slice2cpp should probably catch this. This would also be the case if one named the slice class "ProxyType".

This happens with slice2cpp 3.3.1 on:
Linux 2.6.31-19-generic-pae #56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 02:29:51 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

[mes]

Hi Reid,

Thanks for reporting this. Ideally the generated code should not use symbols that could conflict with Slice type names.

Regards,
Mark