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  2. From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
  4. Subject: Re: references and ellipsis
  5. Date: 14 Apr 1996 15:08:25 GMT
  6. Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne
  7. Approved: clamage@eng.sun.com (comp.std.c++)
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  15. clamage@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Clamage) writes:
  16.  
  17. >According the draft standard, the results of using a reference
  18. >type as the last pararmeter before the ellipsis (...) are
  19. >undefined.  See section 18.7 "Other runtime support" [lib.support.runtime].
  20.  
  21. Is there any good reason why this has undefined behaviour rather than
  22. being ill-formed code?  Surely this should be very easy for implementations
  23. to detect and diagnose.
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