Hi Tim,

Thomas Grill a écrit :
Hi Tim,
this seems to be a speciality of the gcc 3.4 compiler... i'll have to check for that - a bit later

Yes, I'm using 3.3 here and the begin() and end() methods works fine...
These changes between 3.3 and 3.4 are listed here :

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html#cplusplus

I think there are two passages that interests us, First :

You must now use the typename and template keywords to disambiguate dependent names, as required by the C++ standard.
	struct K {
	  typedef int mytype_t;
	};
	
	template <class T1> struct A {
	  template <class T2> struct B { 
	      void callme(void);
	    };

	  template <int N> void bar(void) 
	  {
	    // Use 'typename' to tell the parser that T1::mytype_t names
	    //  a type. This is needed because the name is dependent (in
	    //  this case, on template parameter T1).
	    typename T1::mytype_t x;
	    x = 0;
	  }
	};

	template <class T> void template_func(void)
	{
	  // Use 'template' to prefix member templates within 
	  //  dependent types (a has type A<T>, which depends on
	  //  the template parameter T).
	  A<T> a;
	  a.template bar<0>();

	  // Use 'template' to tell the parser that B is a nested 
	  //  template class (dependent on template parameter T), and 
	  //  'typename' because the whole A<T>::B<int> is 
	  //  the name of a type (again, dependent).
	  typename A<T>::template B<int> b;
	  b.callme();
	}
	
	void non_template_func(void)
	{
	  // Outside of any template class or function, no names can be
	  //  dependent, so the use of the keyword 'typename' and 'template'
	  //  is not needed (and actually forbidden).
	  A<K> a;
	  a.bar<0>();
	  A<K>::B<float> b;
	  b.callme();
	}
But I've checked the code and template and typename seems well placed...

Second :

In a template definition, unqualified names will no longer find members of a dependent base (as specified by [temp.dep]/3 in the C++ standard). For example,
	template <typename T> struct B {
	  int m;
	  int n;
	  int f ();
	  int g ();
	};
	int n;
	int g ();

	template <typename T> struct C : B<T> {
	  void h ()
	  {
	    m = 0; // error
	    f ();  // error
	    n = 0; // ::n is modified
	    g ();  // ::g is called
	  }
	};

You must make the names dependent, e.g. by prefixing them with this->. Here is the corrected definition of C<T>::h,

	template <typename T> void C<T>::h ()
	{
	  this->m = 0;
	  this->f ();
	  this->n = 0
	  this->g ();
	}

Perhaps if you just add this-> before begin() and end() at lines 72 & 80, it will works, but it seems too simple..
I see no other differences but I'm not a C++ specialist, has anyone got an idea?

Greetings,

Nicolas