From 6527214724870553000 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,788fb706de8dacba X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-07 11:01:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!skynet.be!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: Ron Natalie Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Incomplete types Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 18:00:17 GMT Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: <3B1FB81E.900FB0D9@spamcop.net> References: <3B1F528F.B713765@akella.com> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 991936822 mail2news:16480 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) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 13:19:16 EDT Lines: 20 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:5844 "Igor A. Goussarov" wrote: > can you explain why is deleting an object of an incomplete type > considered an undefined behaviour rather then a compile-time error? Got me. > Deleting of void* should be allowed regardless to the fact that void > is never complete since it is known to have no destructor. You can't new void's, it's not legal to destroy them at all. --- [ 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 ]