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Re: numerical instability and estimate-probability
On Nov 18, 2001, Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 11:10:35AM -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> Err... I seem to remember having read somewhere, perhaps in the GCC
>> manual, that it would evaluate arguments in the same order, despite
>> the freedom granted by the standards, even though no sequence point
>> would be introduced between the evaluation of the arguments.
> I don't remember ever seeing this. And if it is in our docs
> somewhere it should be eliminated with predjudice.
I looked for it before posting my message, but couldn't find it.
It's probably the case only at -O0.
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