On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 03:33:34PM -0600, Martin Sebor wrote:
It's fine by me (for whatever it's worth).
Thanks. Let's wait if Jason/Joseph or anyone else wants to chime in.
Btw., if you're unhappy about having to wipe out the whole chain
after every side-effect it occurred to me that it might be possible
to do better: instead of deleting the whole chain, only remove from
it the elements that may be affected by the side-effect. This should
make it possible to keep on the chain all conditions involving local
variables whose address hasn't been taken, which I would expect to
be most in most cases.
I'm not unhappy about deleting the chain ;). I'd rather not do that
because that might get somewhat hairy. First, I don't think we have
the capability to easily detect variables whose address hasn't been
taken, second, consider e.g.
if (j == 4) // ...
else if ((j++, --k, ++l)) // ...
else if (bar (j, &k)) // ...
we'd probably need some walk_tree, save the variables temporarily somewhere
etc.; that might slow and complicate things for a corner case. Or am I being
just too lazy? ;)