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From: jss@hector.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Legal initializer?
Keywords: initialization initializer new
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Date: 3 May 89 14:58:51 GMT
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In article <161@mole-end.UUCP> mat@mole-end.UUCP (Mark A Terribile) asks
about

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	class	My_buf
	{
	  public:
		const int size;
		char *const buffer;

		My_buf( int );
	};


Now, is this constructor legal?

	My_buf::My_buf( int sz )
		: size( sz ), buffer( new char[ sz ] )
	{}

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Yes its legal.

>cfront (the Glockenspiel port) quietly generates bad code:
>

Anytime a cfront based compiler quietly generates bad C it is a bug in
cfront.  This is what we mean when we say that cfront is a compiler
not a preprocessor.  This is true even if the C++ program being
compiled was itself in error in some way.


Jerry Schwarz
AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill