Re: Using "this" in a base initializer list?
* Victor Bazarov:
James Kanze wrote:
On May 8, 3:25 pm, "Victor Bazarov" <v.Abaza...@comAcast.net> wrote:
Angel Tsankov wrote:
Hello! Is the following code illformed or does it yield undefined
behaviour:
class a
{};
class b
{
public:
b(a&){}
};
class c: private a, private b
{
public:
c():b(*this){}
};
Neither. The code is fine.
Are you sure? Throw in some virtual inheritance, and it core
dumps with Sun CC. [..]
Huh? Throw in division by zero or dereferencing a null pointer
and it may release nasal demons. What's it got to do with the
code at hand?
James is referring to the conversion from c* to a*, which ?3.8/5 says is
Undefined Behavior. But the interpretation that yields that conclusion
also means that this,
struct S
{
void foo() {}
S() { this->foo(); }
};
is undefined behavior, so that the common technique of using an
init-function called from multiple constructors, would be formally
Undefined Behavior. Which really means that part of the standard is
fishy Fishy FISHY, and should not be taken verbatim: some constructive
interpretation required, and I think it's impossible to say whether the
code above is formally OK (or not), only that it's in-practice OK.
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