Re: What is the value of conformance? (was RE: <font color="blue"> (was ISSUE-32))

John Foliot wrote:
> In a perfect world, critical fail is that - critical (if your C+ code is
> not conformant, when you go to compile, what happens?) 

About half the time, your compiler gives you a warning and compiles it 
anyway.  And then either it misbehaves or doesn't compile on a different 
compiler...

C++ compilers have been trying to tighten things up, but they also have 
various modes where they'll let non-conformant code sorta work (e.g. by 
disabling certain optimizations).

Or was that meant to be a rhetorical question?

-Boris

Received on Friday, 12 June 2009 22:57:33 UTC