i370 patches

[Richard Henderson]

On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 12:02:13AM -0500, linas@linas.org wrote:
> It'll take me another week to get it all spiffed up.

Ok.

> Note that the compiler will warn me about 
>        if (JUMP_INSN = code)
> but not about
>        if (code = JUMP_INSN)
> and so I've fallen into the habit of coding the former not the latter.

I know.  It make sense, and I know quite a few other folks do
that too for the same reason.  But it looks funny.

> Right, but there are some rare cases (that I can't remember) where operator 
> precedence can give you unexpected results...

Look at the -Wall output -- we warn about such cases.  Same for
using `=' in a boolean context, as above.

> Parenthisis will also minimize/eliminate the impact of using & when
> && was meant, not that *I* would ever make such a mistake :-)

Hehe.


r~