From 5122467113030743285 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,7317cd62b805354f X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: wmm@fastdial.net Subject: Re: What's POD? Was: size of empty class? Date: 1999/06/09 Message-ID: <7jlk53$h9d$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 487480698 Approved: Fergus Henderson References: <375609F3.1B7189E5@spots.ab.ca> <7j8r96$fqj$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7j8v2k$l95$1@uuneo.neosoft.com> <375B4F0E.275FC699@spots.ab.ca> <37615842.1212991826@netnews.worldnet.att.net> <7jjjbu$pgi$1@engnews1.eng.sun.com> X-Original-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 11:45:41 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: backdraft.briar.org: smap set sender to using -f X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.05 [en] (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.20 9000/859) X-Complaints-To: news@news.unimelb.edu.au X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x34.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 207.124.96.30 X-Trace: izvestia.its.unimelb.edu.au 928933849 8093 128.250.29.16 (9 Jun 1999 13:10:49 GMT) Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't. X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Jun 09 11:45:41 1999 GMT X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.std.c++ iQBFAgUAN15nwuEDnX0m9pzZAQGyuAF+ICrIY+tGyL5+83swDEJe4b9m/taTNko+ u11n42K7hJLbp20OO+n5BDFYghDcFD0A =Km3u NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Jun 1999 13:10:49 GMT Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ In article <7jjjbu$pgi$1@engnews1.eng.sun.com>, clamage@eng.sun.com (Steve Clamage) wrote: > jackklein@att.net (Jack Klein) writes: > >The term is used many times in the standard but IIRC it is defined > >only in a footnote, and footnotes are not normative. > > The term is completely defined in normative text in clause 9 > paragraph 4, with a reference to section 8.5.1. That's only the definition of POD-struct and POD-union; POD types also include scalar types (3.9p10). (Interesting to note that a pointer-to-member is a POD type that cannot be a non-static member of a POD-struct or POD-union.) The acronym is explained in footnote 4, 1.8p5, but the definition of the term is normative (albeit distributed). -- William M. Miller, wmm@fastdial.net Software Emancipation Technology (www.setech.com) Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't. --- [ 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://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]