Re: Help interpretting a g++ error?

[Paul Pluzhnikov]

Dan Stromberg <strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu> writes:

> esmf04m-strombrg> cat t.C
>
> main()
>         {
>         using ::malloc;
>         }

This is not a well-formed C++ program.

In your original message, you said:
> I keep getting this weird "malloc not declared" errors when cstdlib is
> included. 

Fixing the test above:

$ cat t.C
#include <cstdlib>
int main()
{
    using ::malloc;
}

makes it compile just fine.

> t.C: In function `int main()':
> t.C:4: error: `malloc' not declared
> make: *** [t] Error 1

Naturally: you didn't #include appropriate header, hence the error.

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