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From: Ian Miller <itmiller AT dra DOT hmg DOT gb>
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Subject: Re: Add this to FAQ: <complex> and <string> must be #included before STL!
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 13:02:41 +0100
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M. Edward Kiser wrote:
> 
> <complex> and <string> must be #included before STL.
> 
> I found this out in a huge program and couldn't find the bug so I made
> a copy and started deleting stuff to see when the bug would go away. I
> eventually got to this, and the bug was still there:
> 
> #include <list>
> #include <complex>
> #include <string>
> 
> So I rearranged the includes
> 
> #include <complex>
> #include <string>
> #include <list>
> 
> and the bug went away.
> 
> I didn't see this in the FAQ or the INFO anywhere. Maybe I missed it.

It looks like a bug to me. Perhaps there is some redefinition
going on; the same macros being used by different header files
in incompatible ways. I don't believe this rearrangement is necessary
for properly written code.

Let's have some details about the bug so that we can get a real
solution rather than the above workaround.

--
Ian Miller, AFRICA (DORSET), UK
DJGPP 2.00, Win95 DOS box (LFN=n), 486DX4/100, 24Mbytes RAM