> 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'.
Or "infer", "inference", "inferring a range". > Please don't overload 'side effect' if possible. Agreed, "side effect" is something precisely defined in the compiler context. -- Eric Botcazou