D and expression evaluation order.

Russell Lewis webmaster at villagersonline.com
Fri Apr 27 11:18:00 PDT 2007


Manfred Nowak wrote:
> Russell Lewis wrote
> 
>> Why prevent optimizers from doing all that they can conceive of?
> 
> This is not an issue, because the requirement is to define an order for 
> those cases only, where currently evaluation order matters. In all 
> other cases the compiler is free to choose the optimum the same way it 
> currently does.

I don't understand what you're saying here; perhaps your definition was 
too indirect?  What are you wanting to define orders for, and what not?

Moreover, if it's not an issue, then why did Walter bring it up? 
Apparently it *is* an issue.



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