Destructor

[Peter]

In article <838z68lh42.fsf at panacea.canonical.org>, kragen at pobox.com 
says...

> My experience with C++ was that the standard (or, anyway, the draft
> standard) was not very helpful for those who want to know what is and
> is not portable behavior, because no implementation implemented the
> standard correctly.  I heard a rumor that now, four years after the
> standard was ratified, there might be a compiler that complies with it
> --- is that true?

Current incarnations of C++ compilers usually have a decent degree of 
conformance at this point. I doubt if there is any compiler that 
conforms completely, but you could probably say the same thing about any 
language standard --- especially for a language as large and complex as 
C++. I haven't done any sort of rigorous conformance testing but 
certainly modern compilers are able to do the standard things that I 
want to use... and that wasn't true one or two versions ago in most 
cases.

Microsoft's compiler seems to be about as far behind as anybody... 
although I haven't tried their new .NET compiler very much yet.

Peter