[std-interval] PODs and parameter passing

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Steve Clamage <Stephen.Clamage at Sun.COM> writes:

[...]

| >>It all depends on the degree of non-PODness; there are ABIs out there
| >>on popular platforms that make optimization decisions based on degree
| >>of PODness.
| 
| Gaby, PODness is binary. If a type does not satisfy all the
| requirements of a POD, it is not a POD.

you are exactly right.  

What I thinking of when I wrote that was scenario when the standard
says a class is a non-POD, but but the ABI treats it -- for calling
convention purpose -- as a POD because its copy-constructor is trivial
and it is sufficiently simple (e.g. does not have virtual functions,
not virtual base class etc.).  But, since we were discussing standard
matters, I should have been more specific.

-- Gaby