From -5153833538433494442 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,7b33df5790e7ad92 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: "Daniel Parker" Subject: Re: complex design flaw (#1) Date: 1999/03/18 Message-ID: <01be70e9$3a08d1e0$7d9cd4c7@danielp.interlog.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 456220500 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: danielp.interlog.com Approved: stephen.clamage@sun.com (comp.std.c++) References: <01be6e30$aeae59e0$7d9cd4c7@danielp.interlog.com> X-UID: 0000000001 X-Status: $$$T NNTP-Posting-Time: 18 Mar 1999 02:41:22 GMT Organization: Interlog Internet Services Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Originator: clamage@taumet Jerry Coffin wrote in article ... > In article , > gdosreis@korrigan.inria.fr says... > > > OTOH, even within this limited domain, you can run into problems in a > hurry. For example, switching something from double to long double is > a fairly innocuous change in a portable program -- about the worst it > should ever do is slow things down considerably. OTOH, if you're > relying on the constraints he gave, your program could suddenly quit > working instead. > --- I don't get it. How SquareMatrix A(1000); gets ininitialized says nothing whatsoever about how SquareMatrix B(1000); gets initialized, or SquareMatrix C(1000); for that matter. Any implementation I could imagine would provide a general case that would work for everything and only optimize for selected cases. Regards, Daniel Parker danielp@no_spam.anabasis.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://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]