From -8752370093137262950 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,ccbfcafab96cf493 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-28 11:02:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Pete Becker Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Proposol to increase robustness of programs Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:01:51 GMT Organization: Dinkumware, Ltd Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <3C043698.7C1B0D7D@acm.org> References: <3C03E02E.FA9754A3@acm.org> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1006974117 mail2news:10526 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Nov 2001 00:57:34 GMT X-Accept-Language: en Lines: 24 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:8334 Dave Harris wrote: > > petebecker@acm.org (Pete Becker) wrote (abridged): > > Obviously, when you get an upgraded library you check the documentation > > to see if any of the changes affect your code. > > I would welcome a tool to automate the checking. It is very error-prone to > do it manually. And I think it's better to put this kind of consistency > check into the compiler than to have a separate Lint-like utility. > It's no more error-prone than writing the original code. Bottom line: don't replace a library without understanding the consequences. -- Pete Becker Dinkumware, Ltd. (http://www.dinkumware.com) --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.research.att.com/~austern/csc/faq.html ]