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From: dant@tekla.TEK.COM (Dan Tilque;1893;92-789;LP=A;60aC)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: temporaries (was Re: parens honored)
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Date: 11 Jan 88 19:21:24 GMT
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Reply-To: dant@tekla.UUCP (Dan Tilque)
Organization: Church of Christ, Secular Humanist
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Keywords: ANSI C standard parens pragmas efficiency

David Keppel writes:
>[ if you want to force evaluation order use temporaries ]
>
>3 thoughts about this:
>
>(1) Super-optimizing compilers may get rid of the temporaries.

If they do, they're violating the white book (K&R) and (I believe) the
proposed standard.  The white book explicitly states that using temporaries
is the way to force evaluation in a particular order. (see page 49)

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Dan Tilque
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