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Re: a warning to implement
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com, gdr at codesourcery dot com
- Cc: aoliva at redhat dot com, coola at ngs dot ru, dewar at gnat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org,pcarlini at unitus dot it
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:19:55 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: a warning to implement
<<Now, even in the case of fundamental interger type T, since the
value of x is an inderterminate, that construct can be used to give
an explicit hint to the compiler to handle « x » in special way --
e.g. it may have a trap representation if used in a context where
there were no intervening assignment which changed x's value in a
definite way. Pretty much, in the same of SNaNs.
>>
Seems like a horrible kludge to me. If you want to tell the compiler
something special, please do it in some direct way, and not by some
very peculiar interpretation of a meaningless construct.