On 10/2/2011 2:18 PM, Stewart Gordon wrote:
Simply because we can't rely on every compiler to perform even the most basic cases of DCE?
Consider:
if (a) { ... code ... }
Sometimes, when debugging, I'll do:
if (0 && a) { ... code ... }
to temporarily disable it. Should that be made illegal? If so, what about:
const X = 0;
if (X && a) { ... code ... }
Illegal too? What about:
bool foo() { ... }
if (foo() && a) { ... code ... }
where foo() may be evaluatable at compile time. How far should this go?
