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Re: [std-proposals] [Draft Proposal] Required attribute syntax

From: Jason McKesson <jmckesson_at_[hidden]>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 17:48:26 -0400
On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 3:47 PM Jens Maurer via Std-Proposals
<std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> On 04/05/2023 12.22, Lauri Vasama via Std-Proposals wrote:
> > The fact is that there are programs which behaviours depend on whether the implementation chooses to ignore this particular attribute or not.
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> Such programs are broken (note ABI issues are out-of-scope for the C++ standard).

They are not broken; they are simply dependent on unspecified
behavior. And therefore are not portable.

Received on 2023-05-04 21:48:38