Daryle Walker wrote:
[Did I already suggest something like this?...]
The Wave preprocessing tool can accept locations for a compiler's system header files. I think the C++ standard allows the standard headers to not be implemented as conventional files. I'm wondering if we can do that, as an experiment. In other words, the Wave library could have an option to inject our version of idealized renditions of the standard headers directly into the token stream, without referencing actual header files. This could catch bugs that assume certain things about actual header files that wouldn't be present in our version.
While that would certainly work in theory, I don't think this is a very practical trick: you'd have to rewrite a huge amount of code (the standard library is big !), and the result would really only be useful to catch the kind of 'bugs' you are talking about. You wouldn't be able to actually do much with the code (such as compile it), as each compiler does in fact have its own version of standard (and not so standard) headers. Regards, Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...