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+// Check that the compiler warns about inner-style forward declarations in
+// contexts where they're not actually illegal, but merely useless.
+
+// Verify warnings for and within classes, and by extension, struct and union.
+class C1;
+class C1::C2;      // { dg-error "does not name a type" }
+class C1::C2::C3;  // { dg-error "has not been declared" }
+
+class C1 {
+ public:
+  class C2;
+  class C2::C3;    // { dg-error "does not name a type" }
+  class C2 {
+   public:
+    class C3;
+    class C3 { };
+    class C3;
+  };
+  class C2;
+  class C2::C3;    // { dg-warning "declaration 'class C1::C2::C3' does not declare anything" }
+};
+
+class C1;
+class C1::C2;      // { dg-warning "declaration 'class C1::C2' does not declare anything" }
+class C1::C2::C3;  // { dg-warning "declaration 'class C1::C2::C3' does not declare anything" }
+
+
+// Verify warnings for namespace scopes.
+class N1::C4;      // { dg-error "has not been declared" }
+class N1::N2::C5;  // { dg-error "has not been declared" }
+
+namespace N1 {
+  class C4;
+  class C4 { };
+  class C4;
+
+  class N2::C5;    // { dg-error "has not been declared" }
+  namespace N2 {
+    class C5;
+    class C5 { };
+    class C5;
+  }
+  class N2::C5;    // { dg-warning "declaration 'class N1::N2::C5' does not declare anything" }
+}
+
+class N1::C4;      // { dg-warning "declaration 'class N1::C4' does not declare anything" }
+class N1::N2::C5;  // { dg-warning "declaration 'class N1::N2::C5' does not declare anything" }
+
+
+// Verify that using declarations related to namespaces don't generate a
+// warning.
+using namespace N1;
+using namespace N1::N2;
+
+namespace N3 {
+  using N1::C4;      // Valid using declaration, no warning
+  using N1::N2::C5;  // Valid using declaration, no warning
+}
+
+
+// Verify that explicit template instantiations, easy to confuse with
+// forward declarations, don't generate a warning.
+template<class C>
+class TC6 {
+ public:
+  class TC7 { };
+};
+
+template class TC6<int>::TC7;  // Valid explicit instantiation, no warning
+
+
+// Verify that friend declarations, also easy to confuse with forward
+// declrations, are similarly not warned about.
+class C8 {
+ public:
+  class C9 { };
+};
+class C10 {
+ public:
+  friend class C8::C9;         // Valid friend declaration, no warning
+};