close 236912
thanks
This bug report reinforces my opinion that bug reports consisting of
claims of nonconformance, but not accompanied by a testcase, should be
immediately closed.
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:15:05PM -0000, bangerth at dealii dot org wrote:
> For Andrew: the code takes the respective method of the base
> class.
More to the point, it doesn't matter how it's implemented, and the user
should not care. It only matters that
std::bad_alloc foo;
std::cerr << foo.what() << std::endl;
works, which the submitter didn't apparently try. Looking at the original
Debian bug report, there are no compiler error messages, just a "my code
doesn't do what I want it to do, so it must be your fault"-style complaint.
> I believe that libstdc++ is actually conforming, since the method exists
> (even if in the base class)
Correct. There is no requirement on implementation, only behavior.
> and it returns an implementation defined
> string (as required by the standard).
Correct. As described in the documentation.
