Bug#485135: To fail or misbehave
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:57:58PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> > Please explain. In C++ there is no implicit conversion between int and
> > char *.
> Exactly. So if you check the return value then the compiler will fail
> (like in the test case above) and you are lucky to notice the problem.
So it fails, completely, you won't get any result from the compiler.
> But if you don't check it and rely on the function to do what it has
> to do (i.e. write the result into the buffer in the argument) then you
> silently get a buffer with undefined data back (most likely
> unchanged).
No. You have to force the compiler somehow to override the error on the
undefined conversion. This is a bug in your code then.
Bastian
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