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- From: miker3@ix.netcom.com (Mike Rubenstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.eiffel
- Subject: Re: Hungarian notation
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 01:34:48 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
- Message-ID: <310980ca.7908160@nntp.ix.netcom.com>
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- austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com (Matt Austern) wrote:
-
- > In article <310842ad.6002240@nntp.ix.netcom.com> miker3@ix.netcom.com (Mike Rubenstein) writes:
- >
- > > > Face it. You just plain got it wrong. Deleting the system disk is
- > > > perfectly within bounds. Stupid, for sure, as no one in their right
- > > > mind would use such a compiler, but perfectly legal.
- > >
- > > Please cite anything in the standard that supports your position. I
- > > can find nothing in the standard that gives an implementation that
- > > license.
- >
- > I can't tell whether this discussion deals with implementation defined
- > behavior, unspecified behavior, or undefined behavior; there are
- > differences.
- >
- > Just one point, though: the standard does give license to an
- > implementor, it's the other way around. The standard tells
- > programmers what guarantees they have about the implementation's
- > behavior. If the standard says nothing about an issue, then there are
- > no guarantees.
-
- This is about implementation-defined behavior. In particular, it's
- about converting an integer to a smaller signed type. According to
- ISO 6.2.1.2, the result of such a conversion is
- implementation-defined.
-
-
- Michael M Rubenstein
-