On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 5:01 AM Paolo Carlini <paolo.carl...@oracle.com> wrote: > while I was working on some location issues I noticed this check which > seems obsolete to me and means that we unnecessarily reject kosher code: > indeed we don't test for it anywhere and neither ICC nor clang enforce > it. I also went through the SVN history and the check is *extremely* > old, I think rms is the last person who touched it. The location fix is > rather obvious (in principle we could do the same for the check I'm > proposing to remove).
OK. The test is obsolete, as you say: the vptr name cannot be written by the user, as it contains either . or $. Jason
