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Re: c++/8931: g++ 3.2 fails to enforce access rules
- From: prj at po dot cwru dot edu (Paul Jarc)
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 18:54:48 -0500
- Subject: Re: c++/8931: g++ 3.2 fails to enforce access rules
- Organization: What did you have in mind? A short, blunt, human pyramid?
- References: <200212132347.gBDNlLlq001838@mira.informatik.hu-berlin.de>
"Martin v. Löwis" <martin@v.loewis.de> wrote:
> People running into this bug can use all well-formed code with a
> compiler that only has accepts-illegal bugs, so having such bugs in
> a maintenance release should be no obstacle for any user. At worst,
> users will find that other compilers reject the code, at which point
> they will have to fix their code, and be done with it.
I don't think that's the worst that can happen. In general, if the
source is not well-formed, how can we know that the generated code
will not be harmful?
paul