On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:57:49PM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:

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> > > Can't the result of the expression be reused in compiled?
> > > Isn't it a common expression?
> > 
> > No, since the call to memcmp might change a->len or b->len.  A
> 
> Huh?! How's that? It is not even given them!

But they are non-local variables (they are part of structs passed in as
pointers), so that translation unit has no idea how they are allocated.
They could be globals that memcmp mucks with as a side effect.

That being said, standards-conforming compilers _can_ realize that
memcmp is a special, standards-defined function with no side effects and
act accordingly. gcc provides the 'pure' function attribute for this
purpose, which is used by glibc.

-Peff
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