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Contents

1 GCC Error Messages……and How-to Solve The Problem
- 1.1 Compilation Errors
- 1.2 Qt Peculiarities
- 1.3 Serious Warnings

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Sometimes GCC emits something that can be described as Haiku poems – and you have no clue as to what it really is complaining about. This page is a collection of such gems, their meaning in English and how to solve the problem.

If you run into an error that you feel belongs here, feel free to mail me. I’m using GMail as e8johan.

Compilation Errors

This is a list of compilation errors that you might find yourself trying to interpret in no particular order.

Error: …discards qualifiers

Error message: passing ‘const ClassName’ as ‘this’ argument of ‘virtual void ClassName::methodName()’ discards qualifiers.

You have called a method that isn’t const using a const object (const ClassName *foo). Either add const to you method, e.g.

class ClassName { public: void methodName() const; };

Alternatively, you remove the const from your object, declaring it as ClassName *foo instead of const ClassName *foo.

Sometimes it is possible to solve this issue using const_cast (thanks Witold). Refer to this DevX article for an example of this.

Error: storage size of ‘foo’ isn’t known

Error message: storage size of 'foo' isn't known.

I ran into this problem when using a typedefed struct as a struct from a function.

typedef struct { ... } Foo;

void function()
{
struct Foo foo;

…
}

The solution is trivial – but hard to spot if you don’t know what to look for.

typedef struct { ... } Foo;

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void function()
{
struct Foo foo;

…
}

Error: multiple types in one declaration

Error message: multiple types in one declaration.

You’ve probably forgot to end a class declaration with a semi-colon – ;. The faulting class is not the one that GCC complains about but one of the classes included from the file containing the class declaration GCC nags you about. Locate the faulty class in one of the suspected files, add the semi-colon and try compiling again.

Error: invalid use of undefined type ‘struct Foo’

Error message: invalid use of undefined type ‘struct Foo’.

It is likely that you are trying to use the class Foo that you’ve forward declared but never included. Simply include the full class declaration for Foo and everything will work.

Error: no matching function for call to ‘FooClass::foo()’

Error message: no matching function for call to 'FooClass::foo()'.

Thanks to Diederik.

If you have implemented and declared the member foo, you are probably trying to use a method from a forward declared class. You need to include the header file containing the declaration of FooClass.

Another variant of this is when you are missing an inherited method. As you are using a forward declared type, GCC cannot tell if FooClass inherits the class implementing foo. A concrete example of this:

chatmaster.cpp:220: error: no matching function for call to ‘ChatMaster::connect(const ContactList*&, const char [35], ChatMaster* const, const char [39])’ /usr/lib/qt3/include/qobject.h:116: note: candidates are: static bool QObject::connect(const QObject*, const char*, const QObject*, const char*) /usr/lib/qt3/include/qobject.h:226: note: bool QObject::connect(const QObject*, const char*, const char*) const

Here ContactList is forward declared and GCC cannot tell that it inherits QObject (containing the connect method). You will not get any message telling you that you have forgot to include the header file.

Error: undefined reference to ‘FooClass::foo()’

Error message: undefined reference to 'FooClass::foo()'.

Thanks to Diederik.

You have defined foo in the header file, but not implemented it. Alternately, you’ve used a library function without linking to the needed library.

Error: invalid operands of types `const char[31]’ and `const char[7]’ to binary `operator+’

Error message: invalid operands of types `const char[31]' and `const char[7]' to binary `operator+'.

Thanks to Diederik.

You cannot write 'foo' + 'bar', instead write 'foo' 'bar' (the split could be across a line-break). GCC automatically concatenates strings.

Error: `QValueList’ undeclared (first use this function)

Error message: `QValueList' undeclared (first use this function).

Thanks to Diederik.

This happens when you write QValueList foo instead of QValueList<type> foo.

Error: cannot call member function `Foo* Foo::instance() const’ without object

Error message: cannot call member function `Foo* Foo::instance() const' without object.

Thanks to Diederik.

You have called instance as a static method, but is was not declared as such.

Errors: non-pointer type, non-aggregate type, cannot convert

Error message: base operand of `->' has non-pointer type `Foo'.

Error message: request for member `bar' in `foo', which is of non-aggregate type `Foo*'.

Error message: cannot convert `Foo' to `Foo*' in initialization.

Thanks to Diederik.

These are all examples of messages that you run into when mixing references, pointers and stack-based variables.

Error: syntax error before `*’ token

Error message: syntax error before `*' token.

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A class name is unknown. It has not been forward declared, nor included.

Error: `foo’ is not a type

Error message: `foo' is not a type.

You wrote foo.width() when you meant foo->width().

Error: unable to find a register to spill in class `FOO’

Error message: unable to find a register to spill in class `FOO'.

Thanks to Dexen.

Quoting this thread.

This error message isn’t telling you about an error in your code, it’s telling you about an internal failure (almost certainly a bug) in the compiler.

You might be able to work around the compiler bug by re-working your code, but it’s not at all obvious how. You might also try tweaking command-line options, particularly ones related to optimization. A Google search for the error message might be fruitful.

Simon Farnsworth also points out that the cause of this can be inline assembler code: This error can also be caused by inline assembly code. If you have asm() directives in your source (see http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Extended-Asm.html), check that the input and output operand constraints are correct, and consider relaxing constraints where possible. However, be aware that your inline assembly may not run as fast as intended if you do this.

Error: invalid operands to binary ‘operator<<‘

Error message: invalid operands of types ‘’ and ‘const char [15]’ to binary ‘operator<.

Thanks to Diederik van der Boor.