Question

I am trying to port a project in a new Linux system with newer g++ version. While compiling I am getting the following:

error: extra qualification ‘Customer::’ on member ‘getCustomer’

Inside a class definition, I am prefixing getCustomer() with Customer::.

If I remove the Customer:: my code works, however the code has a lot of entries prefixed with class names and scope operator. Is there a way, eg a compiler directive, that helps eliminating this error?

From my shell gcc version 4.4.2 20091027 (Red Hat 4.4.2-7) (GCC)

Answer 1

Inside a class definition, I am prefixing getCustomer() with Customer::.

I’m assuming you mean:

class Customer {
    Customer *Customer::getCustomer() { ... }
};

Don’t. There’s no need since you’re already in the class definition, and I don’t think the C++ standard even allows this (I’m surprised older G++ did?).

It seems there’s no -std flag (in GCC 4.4.5) that permits this.