Ping: PATCH to generate error for address of cast
Jason Merrill
jason@redhat.com
Wed Aug 21 12:54:00 GMT 2002
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:28:35 -0700, Matt Austern <austern@apple.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 12:17 PM, Jason Merrill wrote:
>
>> Please remove the static_cast from this testcase; I don't want to support
>> this extension with new-style casts.
>
> I have no problem removing the static_cast from the positive test case.
> However, in the interests of being as explicit as possible about just
> what this extension does and doesn't do, I think that if we decide it
> doesn't apply to new-style casts then we should probably have the
> compiler issue an error message.
Certainly. Care to add it, or at least an XFAILed error test?
> (That's a general gripe: language specification is hard, and I think that
> a lot of extensions are underspecified. We really shouldn't ever put in
> an extension unless we're willing to do the work of figuring out what it
> does in all circumstances.)
Yep.
>> Otherwise, the patch is OK. It was corrupted by your mailer, though, so
>> I can't apply it;
>
> Sorry about that. Would it help if I sent patches as attachments
> instead, or is that contrary to mailing list policy?
Yes, that would be better.
Jason
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