• Anton Sekeris (64/64) Feb 18 2004 Background:

"Anton Sekeris" <no.spam inter.nl.net> writes:

Background: 
	The code below is a simplification of a problem I encounter. I think
it is a bug, but I cannot match it against other compilers at this
time, nor can I find a fullly relevant section in the standard.

	The error occurs in a moderately large project where many levels of
includes and uses exist, and where many header files are 'header-only
libraries' like WINSTL. In my case therefore the easiest and most
acceptable workaround was 3 (see below).

	The error did not occur in v838, it occurs in v839 and v840 beta.

Commandline: dmc -c test.cpp

Error:

  return f(1);
             ^
test.cpp(48) : Error: ambiguous reference to symbol
Had: ns::f(int ,int )
and: ns::f(int ,int )
--- errorlevel 1

Workarounds:
	1. Replace both 'using ns::f' instances with 'using namespace ns' and
it works.
	2. Remove either of the 'using ns::f' and it works.
	3. Replace 'f(1)' with 'ns::f(1)' and it works (irrespective of using
directives).

Code (also attached):
//**********************************************************************
//Block __INC1_HPP would normally be like #include "inc1.hpp"
#ifndef __INC1_HPP
#define __INC1_HPP

  //Block __GENERIC_INC_HPP would normally be like #include
"generic.hpp"
  #ifndef __GENERIC_INC_HPP
  #define __GENERIC_INC_HPP

    namespace ns
    {
    	int f (int i, int i2 = 10)
    	{
    		return 0;
    	}
    }

  #endif //__GENERIC_INC_HPP

  using ns::f;

#endif //__INC1_HPP

//Block __INC2_HPP would normally be like #include "inc2.hpp"
#ifndef __INC2_HPP
#define __INC2_HPP

  //Block __GENERIC_INC_HPP would normally be like #include
"generic.hpp"
  #ifndef __GENERIC_INC_HPP
  #define __GENERIC_INC_HPP

    namespace ns
    {
    	int f (int i, int i = 10)
    	{
    		return 0;
    	}
    }

  #endif //__GENERIC_INC_HPP

  using ns::f;

#endif //__INC2_HPP

int main ()
{
  return f(1);
}
//**********************************************************************