Re: Is the STL too authentic... ?

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From: Fergus Henderson
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 15:16

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Andrew Koenig wrote:

>For example, one commercial product is acompiler/interpreter that
>pretty much does full run-time checking that can be turned on and off
>on a translation unit basis.  Another one is an after-compilation
>range checker that rewrites the machine instructions in your executable
>file to include run-time checking of many (though not all) bounds errors.

"Edward C. Korsberg" <korsberg@cle.ab.com> replied:

>What commercial product are you referring to here?

Andrew Koenig was no doubt referring to ObjectCenter (the compiler/interpreter)
and Purify (the after-compilation range checker).

-- 
Fergus Henderson             	WWW: http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh
fjh@cs.mu.oz.au              	PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3
ObQuote: "... in general, safety is not very high on the lists of concerns
  of the [C++] committee members ... After all, if you want semantically
  safe languages that are fundamentally different from C, you don't have
  to look very far." -- Andrew Koenig, editor of the draft C++ standard.

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