N3644 Comparing value-initialized iterators

Jonathan Wakely jwakely.gcc@gmail.com
Sun Nov 24 21:01:00 GMT 2013


On 24 November 2013 20:46, François Dumont wrote:
>
>>>      I will spend some time on it if you don't mind.
>>
>> I don't mind, but I'm not confident you'll be able to make
>> uninitialized memory give reliable results.
>>
>
>     I am not confident neither but for the moment I can only see 3 choices:
> 1. Remove debug checks regarding those comparisons
> 2. Do not change anything so ignoring N3644 resolution
> 3. Detect uninitialized memory even if not reliable
>
>     People interesting in debug checks will surely not appreciate choice 1.
> People that worked to have N3644 adopted will surely not appreciate 2. 3
> looks like the most acceptable approach to me.

IMHO option 2 is the best one.  It's correct for C++98, C++03 and C++11.



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