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Re: What would happen if your destructors aren't get called?

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On 02/ 4/12 12:23 PM, U.Mutlu wrote:
> Ian Collins wrote, On 02/04/12 00:05:
>> On 02/ 4/12 12:01 PM, U.Mutlu wrote:
>>
>>> How can Microsoft sell such a buggy product and call it "C++ compiler"?
>>
>> Show me a bug free compiler and I'll show you a flying pig.
>
> But if such elemantary parts like automatically called destructors
> aren't working in a C++ compiler, then it can't be a C++ compiler.

Like any piece of commercial software, the bugs that get fixed are 
either the most embarrassing ones, or the ones the most paying customers 
prioritise.  There's no point in whinging about something you got for 
free, get a support contract and raise a bug.

> Imagine what happens if that product is used in sensitive areas
> like the NASA, airplane industry, defense companies etc. etc...

I doubt anyone runs windows in safety critical systems :)

> A C++ conformance body should control the vendors.

How?

-- 
Ian Collins

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What would happen if your destructors aren't get called? "U.Mutlu" <for-usenet@mutluit.com> - 2012-02-04 00:01 +0100
  Re: What would happen if your destructors aren't get called? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-04 12:05 +1300
    Re: What would happen if your destructors aren't get called? "U.Mutlu" <for-usenet@mutluit.com> - 2012-02-04 00:23 +0100
      Re: What would happen if your destructors aren't get called? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-04 13:18 +1300
        Re: What would happen if your destructors aren't get called? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-02-04 15:43 +0100
        Re: What would happen if your destructors aren't get called? "MikeWhy" <boat042-nospam@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-04 14:19 -0600
        Re: What would happen if your destructors aren't get called? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-05 09:37 +1300
      Re: What would happen if your destructors aren't get called? Goran <goran.pusic@gmail.com> - 2012-02-03 22:03 -0800
    Re: What would happen if your destructors aren't get called? Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2012-02-03 15:11 -0800
      Re: What would happen if your destructors aren't get called? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-02-07 17:19 +1300
  Re: What would happen if your destructors aren't get         called? Sam <sam@email-scan.com> - 2012-02-03 17:28 -0600
  Re: What would happen if your destructors aren't get called? Paavo Helde <myfirstname@osa.pri.ee> - 2012-02-03 18:22 -0600
  Re: What would happen if your destructors aren't get called? "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com> - 2012-02-04 15:46 +0100
  Re: What would happen if your destructors aren't get called? "Gernot Frisch" <me@privacy.net> - 2012-02-07 10:32 +0100

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