Re: Unitialized dynamic reference

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From: Brian McCauley
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 16:06

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In article <1dessbINNn1b@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, daniel@cse.ucsc.edu (Daniel R. Edelson) writes:
> ... is the following illegal?
> 
> 	new (int&)
Yes the type of this expression is `int&*'. There is no such type!
(Because if you try to take the address of reference what you get is the
address of the thing referred to.)
 
> All the compilers I tried permitted it.
Get some better compilers - Borland 3.1 spotted the error.

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From: mccauleyba@vax1.bham.ac.uk (Brian McCauley)
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Subject: Re: Unitialized dynamic reference
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