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From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] non-interruptible temporary: why do we care?
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:28:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2484945A14B69F5196BABCD506615017@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B874CA6182B954F7D78E1ABD0B19A67A@smtp.pobox.com>

Quoth unobe@cpan.org:
> Quoth ori@eigenstate.org:
> > Our compilers will sometimes produce a warning about
> > a non-interruptible temporary:
> > ...
> > Why do we warn about non-interruptible
> > temporaries? What issues am I missing?
> 
> Silence to this question means no one knows, right?
> 

I pinged Charles off list and got a response -- it means
we're falling into the rathole; in other words, we're
accessing a global variable.

The right thing to do (IMO) is make the compiler allocate
on the stack, and then the warning would be unneded.


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  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-16 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-04  3:32 ori
2021-06-16 20:23 ` unobe
2021-06-16 20:28   ` ori [this message]
2021-06-17 19:32     ` Charles Forsyth
2021-06-16 21:10   ` Anthony Martin
2021-06-16 21:28     ` unobe
2021-06-20 14:53   ` [9fans] help Spock via 9fans
2021-06-20 15:32     ` Marshall Conover
2021-06-20 18:46       ` U Cirello
2021-06-20 21:14       ` Ethan Gardener

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