Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wjh12.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!kendall From: kendall@wjh12.UUCP (Sam Kendall) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Re: Must useless expressions be evaluated? Message-ID: <337@wjh12.UUCP> Date: Sun, 16-Oct-83 02:12:02 EDT Article-I.D.: wjh12.337 Posted: Sun Oct 16 02:12:02 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 17-Oct-83 01:35:56 EDT Organization: Delft Consulting Corp., New York Lines: 12 Steven M. Haflich has some good points about possibly evaluating expressions that seem to have no side effects, but that actually do because of reference to special locations. One should be able to tell the compiler when such things may occur in a piece of code, like you can in BLISS only less elaborate,* but anyway I was jumping the gun when I rudely suggested this topic be dropped. It is not so easily dismissed, and I apologize. Sam Kendall {allegra,ihnp4}!wjh12!kendall Delft Consulting Corp. decvax!genrad!wjh12!kendall *There was extensive discussion of these points a while back.