Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!ogicse!pdxgate!eecs!mwizard From: mwizard@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Craig Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: ++i++ in Plain English Message-ID: <2415@pdxgate.UUCP> Date: 19 Apr 91 09:07:09 GMT References: <5ywa15w164w@cellar.UUCP> <3845@inews.intel.com> Sender: news@pdxgate.UUCP Lines: 35 peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <3845@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes: >> Yes, you're right, most of it is moot, but remember that >> the entire operation is permitted to be "discarded" if >> the value of i is never used again in the rest of its >> current scope. > ... and if i isn't volatile ... >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com >+1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?" >Shouldn't that be "if I aren't volatile"? Boy, did I start a "nasty" or what ? This will sound kinda stupid but I actualy tried this on a 4.2 BSD machine about three years ago. I know it won't sound right, but you know what it did ? Nothing, not a damn thing happened to i. it just blew it over. Cheers! []====================================================================[] || Craig R. Nelson | CCSofD Software Inc. || || Programmer | Beaverton, OR, 97005 || || mwizard@eecs.ee.pdx.edu | (unlisted on the net) || ||====================================================================|| || The opinions expressed here are mine. No one gave them to me. || || Since I own half of it they are also the company's opinons. || || (but only fifty-percent of the time.) || []====================================================================[] []====================================================================[] || Craig R. Nelson | CCSofD Software Inc. || || Programmer | Beaverton, OR, 97005 || || mwizard@eecs.ee.pdx.edu | (unlisted on the net) ||