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Key: CPP11-82
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Legacy Issue Number: 1946
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Status: closed
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Source: Anonymous
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Summary:
Summary: Sequence allocbuf functions should be specified such that passing zero for
their arguments is illegal. Allocating a sequence buffer of zero elements
is rather pointless because nothing useful can be done with such a buffer.
The result of passing zero to allocbuf should be implementation-defined,
since throwing an exception is not a good way to handle programming logic
errors (similar to how indexing past the end of a sequence is a logic error
for which an exception is pretty useless). -
Reported: CPP 1.0b1 — Sun, 13 Sep 1998 04:00 GMT
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Disposition: Resolved — CPP 1.1
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Disposition Summary:
Close no change. Discussion of this issue determined that a zero parameter to allocbuf is legal and
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Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:58 GMT