At 02:12 PM 6/7/00 +0100, Phillip Helbig wrote: >> There is no "right" answer -- the program appears not to be standard >> conforming: > >Is this something a standard-conforming compiler must be able to >catch? No. In the general case, recognizing this problem requires interprocedural analysis or (more likely) run-time checks. -Kurt -- Kurt W. Hirchert [log in to unmask] Center for Computational Sciences +859-257-8748 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%