Volatile MEMs in statement expressions and functions inlined as trees

[Richard Henderson]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 03:06:29PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I cannot imagine that anybody can seriously argue for that kind of
> terminal illness of the compiler..

Indeed.

> Which is, again, why I point to the oft-quoted sentence, which says that
> the assignment returns the value stored...

No, it doesn't say that.

6.5.16#3:
] An assignment expression has the value of the left operand after
] the assignment, but is not an lvalue.


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