From 2774733384776775417 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,515fa24b8aaed57 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f78e5,515fa24b8aaed57 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de (James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763) Subject: Re: Example in "The C++ Workbook" by Wiener and Pinson Date: 1995/07/20 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 106599953 sender: news@lts.sel.alcatel.de references: <3ujj8d$o4m@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> organization: SEL newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.std.c++ In article ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig) writes: |> so this shouldn't work. What should happen is that the compiler should |> refuse to execute your program, Since this is comp.std.c++ (and not comp.lang.c++): does the standard say that the implementation must refuse to execute your program. It certainly requires a diagnostic, but it was my understanding that once the diagnostic was emitted, the implementation was free to do pretty much whatever it pleased (including generating executable code which does something completely different than what the programmer wanted). -- James Kanze Tel.: (+33) 88 14 49 00 email: kanze@gabi-soft.fr GABI Software, Sarl., 8 rue des Francs-Bourgeois, F-67000 Strasbourg, France Conseils en informatique industrielle -- -- Beratung in industrieller Datenverarbeitung