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From: "Peter C. Chapin" <PChapin@vtc.vsc.edu>
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On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 04:13:22 +0200, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:

>> oops, the C++ spec allows implementations to terminate compiles if they
>> recurse too deeply. Nevermind.
> That's no good again. After that, a compiler, may produce invalid
> output.

The C++ compilers I've used where I've seen this happen (mostly while 
experimenting with metaprogramming) all produced an error message about 
"template instantiation depth exceeded" or something like that. None of 
them silently produced incorrect code.

Peter