Re: UB when flowing off end of value-returning function
On Nov 6, 7:00 am, Rui Maciel <rui.mac...@gmail.com> wrote:
James Kanze wrote:
On Nov 3, 5:34 pm, Rui Maciel <rui.mac...@gmail.com> wrote:
Scott Meyers wrote:
[...]
Some C++ compilers manage to detect a "flow off" apparently
without any trouble, which leads to believe that this is doable.
Really! Which ones? (Some detect some more or less trivial
cases, and most of those detect cases where in fact there is no
flow off.)
Both G++ and MS's C++ compiler manage to detect when a method
presents a "flow off" problem.
Both G++ and VC++ warn about flowing off the end in cases where
the code can't flow off the end, and fail to warn about it in
some cases where the code could flow off the end. In addition,
where you get warnings from g++ depends on the various
optimization options.
In other words, neither detect "flow off" reliably.
I don't know if their technology is able to detect every
conceivable case but they do throw warnings and errors for
that, depending on the configuration.
Which is why the standard can't require an error. Requiring an
error means being able to reliably detect the condition, always,
and with no false detections.
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