On 13 February 2014 03:13, Henrik Mannerström wrote:
> In his blog, Herb Sutter says it's "Modern C++ style" to use "auto x =
> 42f;". When compiling the program below with gcc 4.8.1, I get an error.
>
> int main() {
> auto a = 42f;
> return a;
> }
>
> $ g++ -std=gnu++1y -Wall -Wextra -pedantic test.cc
> test.cc: In function ‘int main()’:
> test.cc:2:12: error: unable to find numeric literal operator ‘operator"" f’
> auto a = 42f;
>
> Am I missing something?
> BR,
> Henrik Mannerström
>
> http://herbsutter.com/2013/08/12/gotw-94-solution-aaa-style-almost-always-auto/
Herb's example is wrong, the floating suffix f is only valid on a
floating-literal, which must have a . character, so it should be
auto a = 42.f
