The preprocessor (or any subsequent component) does not remove superfluous
referencing and dereferencing. For instance take the example of accessing the
address of an element in an array.
&(data[i])
The preprocessor or at least another part should convert this to the equivalent
of
(data + i)
Similarly the redundant de/referencing of &*&*&*variable is not be removed
I know that this can be done from the coders side but in my case some nice
tricks with macros and other things make it undesireable to code by hand.
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Summary: No removal of redundant referencing / dereferencing
Product: gcc
Version: 4.0.0
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P3
Component: preprocessor
AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
ReportedBy: othojunk at yahoo dot com
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25772
