Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 18:04:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha tinderbox failure Message-ID: <200205112204.g4BM4Wjl012500@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020511213704.GF16174@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020511161441.GA1568@hpdi.ath.cx> <xzpy9eqzlqz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020511213704.GF16174@hades.hell.gr>
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<<On Sun, 12 May 2002 00:37:05 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> said: > It is ugly. I'm not sure if it's non-standard too. Duff's device was valid in C89. I can't speak for whether C99 has broken this. That's not necessarily a bad thing, since most of the time people use it to prove how 'leet they are rather than for an actual performance improvement. (I'd be surprised if any compiler newer than PCC actually produced better code for it.) -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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