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From: ge@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A question of stylecode!
Message-ID: <573@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 8 Dec 89 10:03:18 GMT
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dbin@norsat.UUCP (Dave Binette) writes:

>But in the final analysis regarding this ',' (comma) business....
>does it make any differrence to the compiled code?
>Is this something an optimizer will eat for breakfast?

Most compilers won't even let the optimiser see this one. Especially pcc.
Constructs like these are usually removed in the semantic analysis phase.


Ge' Weijers
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