On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 12:09:16PM -0500, Jim Peters wrote: > Jacques-Pascal Deplaix wrote: > > What are the side effects corrected by the temporary variables ? > > Unwanted side effects can happen if you evaluate an expression more > than once, e.g. if you substituted the full expression for every > _tmp2_ in the C code. Expressions with side-effects include function > calls and stuff which modifies variables, e.g. p++. You don't want to > do 'p++' twice or call the function twice. > > As the other poster said, C compilers are very good at optimising away > temporary variables.
There've been a number of refactoring lately that will hopefully lead to dropping lots of useless temporary variables. That's for the sake of C code readability and smaller C code footprint. -- http://www.debian.org - The Universal Operating System _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
