On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 22:57 +0100, Chris Vine wrote: > On Thursday 01 September 2005 21:45, Erwin Rol wrote: > gcc-4.0 does allow static member variables to be initialised inline. So do > gcc-3.2, 3.3 and 3.4, with x86 at any rate. > > Older pre-C++98 compilers may not. What does 'gcc --version' tell you? You > may have more than one compiler installed and be calling the wrong one. > gcc (GCC) 4.0.1 20050831 (Red Hat 4.0.1-12) and the system is; Linux xpc.home.erwinrol.com 2.6.12-1.1519_FC5 #1 SMP Sat Aug 27 13:54:40 EDT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Its not the wrong compiler, i am sure about that. And the problem is not that the member variables are initialized inline, the problem is that std::string::npos is not constant, and so can not be used to initialize static inline initialization. - Erwin -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list