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- From: linton@marktwain.rad.sgi.com (Mark Linton)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews
- Subject: Re: InterViews not C++
- Message-ID: <1h5gt0INN815@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 22:36:16 GMT
- References: <JPOLITO.92Dec18155929@sysgem1.encore.com>
- Reply-To: linton@marktwain.rad.sgi.com (Mark Linton)
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- In article <JPOLITO.92Dec18155929@sysgem1.encore.com>, jpolito@sysgem1.encore.com (Jonathan Polito) writes:
- |>
- |> So why do the InterViews developers continue to delete arrays with the
- |> plain delete syntax? i.e.
- |> a = new int[10];
- |> delete a;
- |>
- |> This clearly has undefined behavior in C++, yet InterViews continues
- |> to rely upon it.
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- Some InterViews code is old enough to run through compilers that
- didn't understand delete[] (or worse yet, generated bad code).
- Please send references to any such usages in 3.1 to interviews-bugs, and
- they will be fixed in the future.
-