Re: Positioning of catch(...)
On Oct 13, 6:39 pm, Erik Wikstr=F6m <Erik-wikst...@telia.com> wrote:
On 2008-10-13 18:36, Juha Nieminen wrote:
Kai-Uwe Bux wrote:
That says that a program where catch(...) is not the last
handler in a block is ill-formed ("shall").
What does "ill-formed" mean in practice? Does it have
something to do with "undefined behavior"?
I believe that ill-formed code is not required to compile,
while undefined behaviour refers to the run-time behaviour
(which means that the code did compile).
Sort of. Ill-formed means that the compiler must issue a
diagnostic. Having done so, it is free to compile the code if
it wishes. (Good compilers generally don't.) Undefined
behavior means just that---whatever the compiler does with the
code is correct as far as the standard is concerned. It may
refuse to compile it (with or without an error message); it may
compile it do something that works; or it may compile it to do
anything else.
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