From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@cs.tamu.edu>
To: John Love-Jensen <eljay@adobe.com>
Cc: Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com>,
MSX to GCC <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: cast to an enum does not throw errors even for invalid values
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abvopjci.fsf@soliton.cs.tamu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C280D256.2233A%eljay@adobe.com>
John Love-Jensen <eljay@adobe.com> writes:
[...]
| > I feel GCC can implement the same for enum-s too.
|
| GCC cannot implement the same for enum's too, because then the resulting
| language would be not-C++, which is not in the best interest of GNU and GCC.
[...]
| But if you want to pursue introducing a feature request to C++, please
| contact ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG21 The C++ Standards Committee:
|
| http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/
It's worth pointing out that enums will be "improved" in C++0x:
http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2007/n2213.pdf
That is now part of the draft standard. I believe Shriramana's issue
is addressed.
-- Gaby
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-29 0:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-22 13:00 Shriramana Sharma
2007-05-22 17:09 ` John Love-Jensen
2007-05-28 14:17 ` Shriramana Sharma
2007-05-28 17:33 ` Sergei Organov
2007-05-29 0:23 ` John Love-Jensen
2007-05-29 11:05 ` Gabriel Dos Reis [this message]
2007-05-25 11:26 Shriramana Sharma
2007-05-25 14:38 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2007-05-25 16:54 ` Young, Michael
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