Re: Intermediate addr outside object: legal?

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From: John F. Woods
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 17:23

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shankar@aspen.IAG.HP.COM (Shankar Unni) writes:
>This, of course, does not address the question of what is "the right
>thing to do" when the compiler sees this expression (the user-
>friendliness question).

The most "*user*-friendly" thing for a compiler to is to severely spank
*developers* who write nonportable, illegal code.  Eventually, *developers*
would start writing code with few enough bugs that *users* would enjoy
using it.

It should not be the compiler's job to *delay* bug reports.

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