Re: Is this a Bug of VS 2005?

From:
"Matthias Hofmann" <hofmann@anvil-soft.com>
Newsgroups:
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Date:
4 Aug 2006 10:44:52 -0400
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"Lighter" <cqulyx@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Is this a Bug of VS 2005?

We know size_t is not a built-in data type in C++, rather, it is just a
typedef declaration.

However, I found the following code could be normally compiled with VS
2005:

// Note that I don't include any header file in this source file

int main()
{
size_t n = 8;

return n;
}

Why? Is this really a bug of VS 2005?

I don't think this is an extension for C++ made by VS 2005. The reason
for this is that VS 2005 can still correctly compile the code
above-mentioned even if I set the compiler
option /Za.

Dev C++ cannot normally compile the code provided-above.

I am sure C++ standard doesn't make a rule that size_t should be one of
the default data types without any forwarding declaration.

Who know further information about this?


Interesting. Section 3.7.3/2 seems to say that the code is ill-formed.
However, I don't know how an implementation is required to deal with
ill-formed code. Is there a diagnostic required?

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