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From: rfg@paris.ics.uci.edu (Ronald Guilmette)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: cfront 2.0 bug 900208_03
Message-ID: <25DA61E9.21340@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 90 08:01:46 GMT
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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// cfront 2.0 bug 900208_03

// The Cfront 2.0 reference manual (5.3.3) says "This type must be an
// object type; functions cannot be allocated this way...".

// cfront fails to detect (at compile time) cases where an attempt is made to
// allocate a function (using new).  Cases where an attempt is made to
// deallocate a function (using delete) are detected however.

typedef void (func_type) ();

void global_function_0 ()
{
  new func_type;	// ERROR - missed by cfront 2.0
}

void global_function_1 (func_type *p)
{
  delete p;		// ERROR - caught by Cfront 2.0
}

int main () { return 0; }