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Date:      Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:57:21 +0000
From:      James Mansion <james@wgold.demon.co.uk>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Barb problem, FOUND
Message-ID:  <333196A1.51F3@wgold.demon.co.uk>
References:  <332BC869.37B7@wgold.demon.co.uk>  <199703160612.XAA13150@rover.village.org> <199703171856.LAA07505@rover.village.org>

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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



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