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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
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Subject: Re: Must useless expressions be evaluated?
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Date: Thu, 20-Oct-83 00:21:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 20 00:21:08 1983
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But all of these examples (touching and/or reading a location to cause a
"trap") can be done in a "non-useless" setting by a statement of the form
	i := loc;
Here, you are assigning the value, and so it is not "useless".  In fact,
I had exactly that problem in a sort of garbage collector thing I wrote
- I wanted to test pointers to see if they really pointed to something
before following them.  Just saying *ptr was NOT sufficient - the
compiler threw it away (I think this was in a comma-separated
expression, I'm not sure now).  I had to actually assign it to a
variable before I could get my "expected" trap (naturally I chose a
register variable).

=Spencer