From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:01:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:01:49 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:28938 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:01:44 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: ptb@it.uc3m.es, "David Woodhouse" Subject: Re: [IDEA+RFC] Possible solution for min()/max() war Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 02:08:42 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] Cc: ptb@it.uc3m.es, "Herbert Rosmanith" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dhowells@cambridge.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <200108302156.f7ULujo24456@oboe.it.uc3m.es> In-Reply-To: <200108302156.f7ULujo24456@oboe.it.uc3m.es> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <20010831000154Z16102-32383+2552@humbolt.nl.linux.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On August 30, 2001 11:56 pm, Peter T. Breuer wrote: > One CAN rely on this behaviour so long as branch reduction (well, > whatever it's called) is an optimizing step following constant > expression evaluation. "Dead code removal" -- Daniel