Hi all, Recently I borrowed a trick from the Boost toolkit's static_assert.hpp to force developers to not use certain functions - I defined bodyless structs who's name contains the message I want to give, and then take the sizeof that struct. Something like: struct ERROR___Please_use_bar_instead_of_foo; #define foo(x) sizeof(ERROR___Please_use_bar_instead_of_foo) With MSCV 6 and 7, and gcc 3.2 and earlier, you get a message like: testErrors.cpp:14: `sizeof' applied to incomplete type ` ERROR___Please_use_bar_instead_of_foo' which is perhaps not perfect, but it gets the message across. Unfortunately with gcc-3.3.1 the C compiler does the right thing, but the C++ compiler just says: testErrors.cpp:14: error: invalid application of `sizeof' to an incomplete type Which isn't particularly useful... Does anyone have any idea why this was changed, or if there is any way to restore the old error messages? I was half-way tempted to report this as a bug... Failing that - does any one have any other suggestions of ways to do this? Thanks, Warren.
