Re: [Quantlib-dev] bondhelpers.cpp bug

[Luigi B. <lui...@gm...>]

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 10:40 +0000, Simon Ibbotson wrote:
> The constructor for the FixedRateBondHelper class that takes a bond as
> a parameter doesn’t instantiate member variable ::bond_ before use.

True--I've fixed that. Thanks for the report.


> b)       If we use the input bond, there’s no guarantee that the bond
> is not used elsewhere with a different yieldcurve which would lead to
> uncertain results.

True, but as you wrote it's tricky to make it safe. For the time being,
I've added a warning to the documentation pointing out the problem.

Luigi


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