[wx-dev] Re: Improving wxString proposal (Re: #9672: wx 2.9 Ansi/Unicode Combi-wxString)

Hajo Kirchhoff mailinglists at hajo-kirchhoff.de
Mon Jul 7 02:14:35 PDT 2008


Brian Ravnsgaard Riis wrote:
> final. Don't derive from them. Sooner or later someone will allocate a 
> wxCString dynamically, pass it by pointer to std::string and call delete 
> on that pointer. This is called Undefined Behavior(tm).

Good point. I never thought about it.

<offtopic>
(tm)? I wonder who registered that as a trademark ;-D?
</offtopic>

> Note that I'm not saying (at present) that I'm against your proposal as 
> such. I'm following this discussion with great interest, actually. :-) 

Okay, just drop this point from my list of arguments.

Regards

Hajo



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