[ub] [c++std-core-23844] Re: unions and undefined behavior
Howard Hinnant
howard.hinnant at gmail.com
Thu Jul 25 01:24:48 CEST 2013
On Jul 24, 2013, at 6:32 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs.tamu.edu> wrote:
> Howard Hinnant <howard.hinnant at gmail.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> | > Does that make sense?
> |
> | Absolutely makes sense. And if we had a clean slate to work with,
> | that's exactly what I would recommend.
>
> At the risk of beating a dead horse, back in 1997, Valentin Bonnard
> reported this issue. It was quickly classified as a NAD -- for reasons
> that puzzled us on the AFNOR group at the time. But yes, we had a
> cleaner slate then than we do now.
That must've been just before we started the current form of the LWG issues list. Shame, I would've liked to have read the issue. I checked here:
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/1997/N1148.pdf
but didn't see it.
I like to follow the history & evolution of our decisions, and sometimes I learn things from it.
Howard
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