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Re: Volatile MEMs in statement expressions and functions inlined as trees

From: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>
To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 02:25:47 +1100
Subject: Re: Volatile MEMs in statement expressions and functions inlined as trees
References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112132207030.2480-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <flofl2duc7.fsf@riz.cmla.ens-cachan.fr>

On 14-Dec-2001, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> | The "rvalue" of an assignment expression is the value stored.
> 
> Nobody is disputing that.

Well, Linus's terminology is not quite right here.
An rvalue _is_ an expression; it _has_ a value.
An expression may _be_ an rvalue, but it does not _have_ an rvalue.

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Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au>  |  "I have always known that the pursuit
The University of Melbourne         |  of excellence is a lethal habit"
WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh>  |     -- the last words of T. S. Garp.

References:
- Re: Volatile MEMs in statement expressions and functions inlined as trees
  - From: Linus Torvalds
- Re: Volatile MEMs in statement expressions and functions inlined as trees
  - From: Gabriel Dos Reis

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