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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:33:23 +0200
From: Adriano Verardo <a.verardo@tecmav.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Unexpected 8c warning message
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erik quanstrom wrote:
> on the other hand, if you've been following along at home
> with linux development, you'll remember that a week or so
> ago a really smart compiler screwed everybody over by optimizing
> away a test for null because clearly that couldn't happen.
>
> http://lwn.net/Articles/342330/
> http://lwn.net/Articles/342420/
>
> (this problem is also demonstrates one reason mixing
> asignments and declarations is bad practice.)
>
I don't follow Linux  ... thanks for the references, I'll read them.
adriano