g++ 2.95 typeinfo::name()

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Jon Cast <jcast@ou.edu> writes:

| Dima Volodin wrote:
| 
| >>And users shouldn't claim the compiler has a bug when it just
| >>implements an implementation-defined semantics the way it thinks
| >>useful for its purposes.
| 
| And compiler authors should remember that compilers exist to support users,
| not to give the maintainers something to do.

Nobody is saying the contrary.

| >And adding some "useful semantics" not defined in the standard to
| >standard features is asking for exactly this type of claims.
| 
| I'm sorry; maybe I'm missing something.  I thought the discussion was about
| a *required* function with undefined semantics.

There was no discussion about undefined semantics.

-- Gaby
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