Jon Wilson scripsit:
> Certainly, a compiler must have some course of action which it takes
> when it runs into code which it cannot translate into machine code, but
> that seems not to be the issue here. It seems (upon a moderately
> cursory reading of this thread) that the issue at hand is code which the
> compiler could certainly compile, but which would be problematic at
> runtime.
Because the standard specifies that violations can be caught at runtime,
these supposed two cases are actually the same. Do you really insist
that a compiler passed, say, the text of this email message should
meekly generate an executable that when run says "Syntax error"?
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Received on Mon Feb 26 2007 - 08:36:48 UTC