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Re: PR 10975
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:40:36PM -0800, Nathan Myers wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:00:16PM -0500, Jerry Quinn wrote:
> > I posted a comment to PR 10975 and think it's invalid, but I'd
> > appreciate someone else eyeballing the analysis in case I missed
> > something.
> >
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10975
>
> I agree that the standard is pretty clear on what is required,
> paragraph 11 in particular.
>
> This is pretty clearly a defect in the standard.
Following up further... There's no requirement for the pointers to be
initialized to 0. They could just as well all point to ((charT*) this),
for example. Then, the letter of the standard would be satisfied, and
we could do the right thing immediately, independently of progress on
the DR.
Nathan Myers
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