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Re: [ub] Justification for < not being a total order on pointers?

From: Christopher Jefferson <chris_at_[hidden]>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 22:58:58 +0100
On 10 Oct 2013 21:33, "Lawrence Crowl" <Lawrence_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> On 10/10/13, Nevin Liber <nevin_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > On 10 October 2013 02:36, Lawrence Crowl <Lawrence_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >> The problem is that if you need to represent an object with more than
> >> one segment (as was necessary for arrays > 64 kB on x86) then
> >> requiring a total order within an array places a consistency
requirement
> >> on computing a total order between arrays.
> >
> > Didn't that issue already exist in C++98 (at least with respect to
> > std::less)?
>
> I think so, but that probably implies that the library hasn't been
implemented
> on the full range of machines allowed by the base language.
>
> At this point, I think we need to ask if we really do want to support
machines
> with small segments. Does anyone know of any current such machines?

Both GCC and clang both implement std::less on pointers with <, so there
are it seems no such machines with a correct open source C++ implementation
at least.

Chris
>
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Received on 2013-10-10 23:58:59