Daniel Ellard wrote: > On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Dimitry Andric wrote: [ ... ] > At least the gcc folk now do detect this old chestnut: > > { > int a; > > a /= 0; > } > > which was used to provoke arguments in compiler > classes for many years. (Optimized, nothing happens. > Unoptimized, a division-by-zero error happens...) Great example. If the optimized code fails to generate a division-by-zero error here, the optimizer is buggy. (I won't quote Aho, Sethi, and Ullman again.... :-) -- -ChuckReceived on Sun Apr 10 2005 - 15:10:39 UTC
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