On 12 July 2012 16:02, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On 12 July 2012 15:42, Arthur Schwarz wrote: >> Thank you Johathan; >> >> Didn't think of that. A novel and productive idea. >> >> There is only one 'rub', I had a linker (alas, not a loader error as originally >> stated) error which I reported and was told that it was difficult to change the >> linker and would probably not be done. This was, to me, the somewhat obscure >> "vtable undefined" message with an erroneous line reported where the error was >> to have occurred. Reporting the error to bugzilla would not be effective, in >> this case, because the error was well known and would not be fixed. An external >> explanation seems to be the only recourse. > > That one's described at the link I gave you previously: > http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/VerboseDiagnostics#missing_vtable > > And all over the internet, searching for "undefined reference vtable" > gives several htis that explain it. > > It's probably the most well-documented (by third parties) of all the > errors you might get from GCC. It even has an existing bugzilla report http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42540