erik quanstrom wrote:
on the other hand, if you've been following along at home with linux development, you'll remember that a week or so ago a really smart compiler screwed everybody over by optimizing away a test for null because clearly that couldn't happen.http://lwn.net/Articles/342330/ http://lwn.net/Articles/342420/ (this problem is also demonstrates one reason mixing asignments and declarations is bad practice.)
I don't follow Linux ... thanks for the references, I'll read them. adriano
