Re: Some errors in MIT's intro C++ course
In comp.lang.c++ Christian Hackl <hacki@sbox.tugraz.at> wrote:
Juha Nieminen ha scritto:
(And even if you *are* compiling in debug mode, you are still not
*guaranteed* to get a crash because the standard says so. Unless Microsoft
and the gcc team have *promised* that it will crash now and in the future
for eternity, you have no guarantee.)
You don't have to upgrade your compiler if you don't want to. Removal of
security features certainly sounds like a good reason for keeping an old
version.
Then we get the problem of people using extremely old compilers, like
what you see constantly in this very newsgroup (with people saying that
they are using eg. VC6, and others telling them to upgrade to something
more modern).
Besides, who tells you that the ISO standard will leave bounds checking
optional "for eternity"? Perhaps it will be required by C++2x, or
perhaps at() will be removed.
One of the main principles of the design of the C++ language has been
that you don't have to pay for what you don't use. In this case, if you
don't need bounds checking (because you know your code is correct), then
you don't have to pay for the overhead.
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