Re: [boost] [Serialization] Bizarre bug

Subject: Re: [boost] [Serialization] Bizarre bug
From: Jarl Lindrud (jarl.lindrud_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-03 22:40:47

troy d. straszheim <troy <at> resophonic.com> writes:

> 
> Looks like UB to me.  From the C++ standard:
> 
> Note: in particular, a null reference cannot exist in a well-defined
> program, because the only way to create such a reference would be to
> bind it to the "object" obtained by dereferencing a null pointer,
> which causes undefined behavior. (§ 8.3.2, ¶ 4)
> 

The dummy() function never even gets executed. The point is that the mere 
compile-time presence of a particular line in it, causes a deserialization 
error in main().