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From: lijewski@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mike Lijewski)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.bug
Subject: delete doesn't accept null argument.
Message-ID: <8759@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 1 Sep 89 20:19:51 GMT
Organization: Cornell National Supercomputer Facility
Lines: 34
Keywords: delete NULL

The following script illustrates that g++ won't accept 0 as
an argument to delete.


Script started on Fri Sep  1 16:08:16 1989

robbie(1)->cat delete.cc

main(void)
{
  delete 0;
}

robbie(2)->g++ -v delete.cc

g++ version 1.36.0-
 /usr/local/lib/gcc-cpp -+ -v -undef -D__GNU__ -D__GNUG__ -D__GNUC__ -D__cplusplus -Dunix -Di386 -Dsun386 -Dsun -D__unix__ -D__i386__ -D__sun386__ -D__sun__ delete.cc /tmp/cca00914.cpp
GNU CPP version 1.35.96
 /usr/local/lib/gcc-cc1plus /tmp/cca00914.cpp -quiet -dumpbase delete.cc -noreg -version -o /tmp/cca00914.s
GNU C++ version 1.36.0- (80386, Sun syntax) compiled by GNU C version 1.35.96.
default target switches: -m80387
delete.cc: In function int main ():
delete.cc:3: non-pointer type to `delete'

robbie(3)->exit

script done on Fri Sep  1 16:11:23 1989


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