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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: While talking about useful additions, how about this one??
Message-ID: <7075@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 13 Jan 88 19:49:22 GMT
References: <253@vsi1.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <253@vsi1.UUCP> steve@vsi1.UUCP (Steve Maurer) writes:
>    Ok, boys.     Shoot it down.......

Practically any real C compiler will optimize away "dead" expressions
resulting from folding constants.