Re: GCC 3.4 Heads-up

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 
> You pointed out that this generates good code, I pointed out that it 
> also avoids future errors and is not just a trick for broken compilers. 
> I take your point about generating good code, I'm sorry you can't see 
> that avoiding code duplication is good practice even without the benefit 
> of better code.

Don't be silly. Using non-standard C is _never_ good practice.

If 'd' is a complex expression, and you want to avoid duplicating it, just 
create another temporary variable. 

THAT is good practice. Not strange gcc-only special code that other 
compilers won't touch.

		Linus
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