Jon Wilson scripsit:

> Certainly, a compiler must have some course of action which it takes 
> when it runs into code which it cannot translate into machine code, but 
> that seems not to be the issue here.  It seems (upon a moderately 
> cursory reading of this thread) that the issue at hand is code which the 
> compiler could certainly compile, but which would be problematic at 
> runtime.  

Because the standard specifies that violations can be caught at runtime,
these supposed two cases are actually the same.  Do you really insist
that a compiler passed, say, the text of this email message should
meekly generate an executable that when run says "Syntax error"?

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