Hi,
I ran into an interesting problem today while using Clang 3.3. I managed to reproduce the problem with this minimal test file:
#include “clang/StaticAnalyzer/Core/CheckerRegistry.h”
using namespace clang::ento;
using namespace clang; // ::clang or ::clang::ento::clang??
To which GCC 4.7.2 says:
test.cpp:5:17: error: reference to ‘clang’ is ambiguous
In file included from …/include/clang/StaticAnalyzer/Core/CheckerRegistry.h:13:0,
from test.cpp:1:
…/include/clang/Basic/LLVM.h:52:17: error: candidates are: namespace clang { }
In file included from …/include/clang/StaticAnalyzer/Core/CheckerRegistry.h:66:0,
from test.cpp:1:
…/include/clang/Basic/Version.h:42:17: error: namespace clang::ento::clang { }
Looking at CheckerRegistry.h and Version.h, it is evident what the problem is: CheckerRegistry.h includes Version.h while already inside the clang::ento namespace, and Version.h also starts a clang namespace, whose full name will thus be ::clang::ento::clang.
Is this intentional? I do not see any comments in the source code about this.
Of course it is easily fixed on the user side by referring to “::clang” instead of just “clang”, but I’m still curious.
Thanks!
Gabor