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Re: Volatile MEMs in statement expressions and functions inlinedastrees
- From: Paul Schlie <schlie at mediaone dot net>
- To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>
- Cc: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, <gdr at codesourcery dot com>, Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 20:31:21 -0500
- Subject: Re: Volatile MEMs in statement expressions and functions inlinedastrees
At risk of exposing my ignorance, after looking through the C syntax
definition, it's not even clear to me that "p;" is syntactically valid.
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Am I delusional, or can you see why I claim that it is perfectly
> reasonable to expect the statement "p;" to read the value contained in
> "p"?
>
> Counter-arguments?