On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 8:38 AM Alexander Monakov <amona...@ispras.ru> wrote: > > On Fri, 20 May 2022, Richard Biener via Gcc-patches wrote: > > > > Still waiting for a suggestion, since "side effect" is the description > > > that made sense to me :-) > > > > I think side-effect captures it quite well even if it overlaps with a term > > used in language standards. Doing c = a << b has the side-effect on > > imposing a range on 'b' rather than just affecting 'c' (and its range). > > You could call it 'alternate effect' but that sounds just awkward ;) > > I suggest 'deduce', 'deduction', 'deducing a range'. What the code is actually > doing is deducing that 'b' in 'a / b' cannot be zero. Function in GCC might be > called like 'deduce_ranges_from_stmt'.
So how would you call determining the range of 'c' from the ranges of 'a' and 'b', isn't that 'deduction' as well? > Please don't overload 'side effect' if possible. > > Alexander
