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On 17 Jul., 00:19, "Johannes Schaub (litb)" <schaub-johan...@web.de>
wrote:
> The FCD says that the following code is ill-formed. But we can't know that
> until runtime
>
> int n = 2;
> new int[n]{1, 2, 3};
>
> How is the runtime supposed to emit the diagnostic message? See 8.5.1/6 and
> 5.3.4/15:
>
> 6 An initializer-list is ill-formed if the number of initializer-clauses
> exceeds the number of members or elements to initialize.
>
> Hmm, GCC just segfaults. I wonder whether printing "segfault" is a valid
> runtime diagnostic message. Any insights?

This should be core issue

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_active.html#938

HTH & Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Kr�gler


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