g++ freezes on errneous array initialization

[Daniel Junglas]

Hi there,

I do not have the time to check the archives wether this is a known/fixed bug
or not, so please excuse if you already know about this one:

I have SuSE-Linux 8.2 and g++ --version yields:
        g++ (GCC) 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)
        Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
        This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is 
NO
        warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
PURPOSE.

Consider the following program (which I did attach do this email as well):

int main (int, char**)
{
        static int const array[] = {
                0; // <-- this should be a comma instead of a semicolon
                1,
                2
        }
        return 0;
}

When I compile this program using
        g++ -o bug bug.cpp
I (correctly) see the error message
        bug.cpp: In function `int main(int, char**)':
        bug.cpp:4: error: parse error before `;' token
But after printing this message, g++ seems to freeze: nothing happens for
minutes and I can see with the top utility that g++ grabs megabytes of memory.

Kind regards

        Daniel Junglas

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