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- From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: references and ellipsis
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 13:14:16 PDT
- Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne
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- kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de (James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763) writes:
-
- >fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) writes:
- >
- >|> clamage@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Clamage) writes:
- >
- >|> >According the draft standard, the results of using a reference
- >|> >type as the last pararmeter before the ellipsis (...) are
- >|> >undefined. See section 18.7 "Other runtime support" [lib.support.runtime].
- >
- >|> Is there any good reason why this has undefined behaviour rather than
- >|> being ill-formed code? Surely this should be very easy for
- >|> implementations to detect and diagnose.
- >
- >Hysterica^H^H^H^H^H^H^Horical reasons, no doubt. Declare the last
- >parameter a char in C, and you also get undefined behavior.
- >
- >And it's surely no more difficult to diagnose a double underscore (and
- >at least one compiler does), which is also `undefined behavior'.
-
- No, I think providing useful diagnostics for use of references before
- an elipsis is indeed less difficult than providing useful diagnostics
- for use of double underscores. It's difficult (though by no means
- impossible, of course) for implementations to issue diagnostics for
- uses of the implementation's part of the namespace without also issuing
- diagnostics for definitions in the system header files or in code which
- merely references macros defined in the system header files.
-
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