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From: Bruce.Hoult@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
Subject: Re: Should unary operators convert?
Keywords: unary operator conversions
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.052255.2923@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 29 Jan 91 05:22:55 GMT
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Sender: Bruce.Hoult@actrix.gen.nz (Bruce Hoult)
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Comment-To: krste@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU

Krste Asanovic writes:
>Should the unary operators *, &, +, -, !, ~ perform user-defined
>conversions on their argument? 
> 
>The following example is rejected by g++ (1.37.2b) and cfront
>(2.00.02).


Your example is accepted without complaint by Apple's MPW CFront 1.0  (an
AT&T 2.0 compiler).  The C code produced is also what you would expect.
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