Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!uflorida!haven!ncifcrf!nlm-mcs!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Rearranging FP expressions Message-ID: <8594@smoke.ARPA> Date: 3 Oct 88 03:35:13 GMT References: <4700017@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <12393@oberon.USC.EDU> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 17 In article <12393@oberon.USC.EDU> english@panarea.usc.edu (Joe English) writes: >Didn't I read somewhere that the unary + operator can be used to >suppress rearrangement of the enclosed expression? Unary plus was going to have this property, but when the decision was made to honor parenthesis grouping, that aspect of unary plus was rescinded. >Which reminds me: are there any good books out yet giving a complete >description of the dpANS? I wish K&R had waited another coupla months >before they published Edition 2... K&R/2 is close enough to the finally approved ANS to serve as a guide. Plum Hall has a book entitled something like "Notes on the Draft C Standard" by Tom Plum that covers the things you need to know. I don't recall whether it includes "noalias" but be advised that "noalias" did not survive to reach the final standard.