Re: references and ellipsis

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From: Fergus Henderson
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 15:08

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clamage@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Clamage) writes:

>According the draft standard, the results of using a reference
>type as the last pararmeter before the ellipsis (...) are
>undefined.  See section 18.7 "Other runtime support" [lib.support.runtime].

Is there any good reason why this has undefined behaviour rather than
being ill-formed code?  Surely this should be very easy for implementations
to detect and diagnose.

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