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From: gardner@prls.UUCP (Robert Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Some possible deficiencies in dpANS (or whatever its called)
Message-ID: <8490@prls.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 88 17:30:39 GMT
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Reply-To: gardner@prls.UUCP (Robert Gardner)
Organization: Philips Research Labs, Sunnyvale, California
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In article <4755@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> lvc@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:
>it looks like the following are valid *statements*:
>	i;
>	j << 2;
>	k == 0;
>	"hello world\n";

It would also be nice if an optimizer would give a warning if it
eliminates an entire statement because it performs no useful actions.
I would think that most such statements are programming errors.

Or is this already common?

Robert Gardner