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Re: [v3] libstdc++/6518
Andreas Schwab wrote:
>Paolo Carlini <pcarlini@unitus.it> writes:
>
>|> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>|>
>|> >I'm talking about an string of length 0, not a null pointer. I cannot
>|> >find anything in the standard that requires badbit being set when an empty
>|> >string is passed to operator<<.
>|> >
>|> IMHO, this is a very good point:
>
>Why is it not a good point? This causes correct programs to fail.
>
Andreas, I said it is! I agree completely with you!
But now: what to do about that? I mean, please excuse my naivete: how to
tell a null terminated zero length string from a null pointer?!? I'm not
able to do that. Perhaps you are implying that, since we are not able to
do that, we must give up trying to diagnose the situation and therefore
simply never set the badbit?
Paolo.