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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: short, shameful confession
Keywords: stone cops
Message-ID: <602@taumet.com>
Date: 13 Feb 91 16:49:30 GMT
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Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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mikey@ontek.com (michael "krill-man" lee) writes:

|I think my point is:  If there were some way to know whether the
|expressions used as operands to && and || were pure and free of side
|effects, an extra measure of optimization might be attainable by an
|inspired compiler.

Yes indeed, and some compilers do this.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com