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Subject: Re: short circuit evaluation - some comments
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Date: Sat, 28-Feb-87 19:04:20 EST
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In article <1287@ucbcad.berkeley.edu> faustus@ucbcad.UUCP writes:
>I think if you're being really careful, you can't optimize away any
>arithmetic operations, because there is always the possible side effect
>of an arithmetic exception or memory error.

This isn't true, because the behavior of a C program on
arithmetic exception or memory error is undefined by the
language -- implementations are allowed to do whatever they
like.

|| Tom Stockfisch, UCSD Chemistry	tps%chem@sdcsvax.UCSD