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From: jima@hplsla.HP.COM (              Jim Adcock)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: if (constant expression)
Message-ID: <6590023@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Mar 88 22:48:14 GMT
References: <232@piring.cwi.nl>
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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While historically, the AT&T compiler has been the defacto
definition of the C++ language, there are becoming independent
C++ compilers from a variety of sources.

One would hope that the compilers that are coming out are
"modern" enough to handle "obvious" cases of dead code optimization,
but I see no way to gaurantee that assumption.