From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 20 06:25:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA16189 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 06:25:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from wgold.demon.co.uk (wgold.demon.co.uk [158.152.96.124]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA16183 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 06:25:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from wgold.demon.co.uk by wgold.demon.co.uk (NTMail 3.02.10) with ESMTP id qa001264 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:57:21 +0000 Message-ID: <333196A1.51F3@wgold.demon.co.uk> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:57:21 +0000 From: James Mansion Organization: Westongold Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh CC: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Barb problem, FOUND References: <332BC869.37B7@wgold.demon.co.uk> <199703160612.XAA13150@rover.village.org> <199703171856.LAA07505@rover.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Info: Westongold Ltd: +44 1992 620025 www.westongold.com Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Oh come on! Just because a particular compiler is full of bugs doesn't mean that a construct allowed by the language spec is dubious. No way. Maybe the compiler is dubious ... Get a better compiler. If necessary use a platform which has a choice of compilers that are less dubious. James Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <332BC869.37B7@wgold.demon.co.uk> James Mansion writes: > : In no way shape or form is an inline virtual function (destructor or > : not) 'dunious'. Its quite legal. (Whether you might consider it to be > : bad style is another matter. You can't always avoid it if the class is > : a template, though that's clearly not the case with tvision) > > If compilers don't handle it, then the construct is dubious. :-) > > : If the compiler cannot handle code like this, then the compiler should > : be fixed. > > Actually, it is a bug in the as program and it should be fixed. > > Warner