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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!pauljo
- From: pauljo@microsoft.com (Paul Johns)
- Subject: Re: Bug in BC/C++ 2.0 ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.013802.14793@microsoft.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 01:38:02 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Washington, USA
- Keywords: bugs
- References: <BzrsxL.7t9@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> <rogerl.724699309@Minsk> <1992Dec23.202206.29576@microsoft.com>
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- In article <BzrsxL.7t9@hpuerca.atl.hp.com> aaa@hpuerca.atl.hp.com wrote:
- > In article <1992Dec23.202206.29576@microsoft.com>, pauljo@microsoft.com (Paul Johns) writes:
- > >
- > > 2. Put the size in the delete. This is upwards-compatible:
- > > it's ignored in AT&T 2.1 and 3.0. This can be a little
- > > bit of a pain, but it's probably cheaper than upgrading.
- >
- > Not ignored in IBMC++
-
- I'm wrong about this being upward-compatible according to the
- standard. The standard makes no mention of allowing a number
- between the []'s.
-
- It is a Microsoft (and perhaps others) extension to allow the
- number and ignore it, allowing existing code to work without
- modification.
-
- // Paul Johns
-