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- From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
- Subject: Re: auto_ptr problems
- Date: 20 Apr 1996 15:45:57 GMT
- Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne
- Approved: clamage@eng.sun.com (comp.std.c++)
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- In comp.lang.c++.moderated, kanze@gabi-soft.fr (J. Kanze) writes:
-
- >"Nathan Myers" <ncm@cantrip.org> writes:
- >
- >|> The Draft standard requires that your compiler not try to generate
- >|> auto_ptr::operator->() unless you use it.
- [...]
- >The requirement in the draft that Nathan is referring to (and which *is*
- >new, and not supported by many compilers) is that they not check the
- >return type of operator-> *unless* they actual have to generate the
- >function. (I'm not sure of the exact words, but that is more or less
- >the meaning.)
-
- I'm sure you're right, but when I had a look for this in the draft
- standard, I couldn't find it. Could anyone please direct me to the
- appropriate place?
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