On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:12:19PM +0100, Alberto Simões wrote: > Hi, Folks. > > There are a few files on the parrot source where the compiler complains > about a logic value that is always true. > > Let us check a specific case: > > on src/jit_emit.h:231, > > if (!base && !(i && scale) && (!emit_is8bit(disp) || 1)) { > > This is exactly > > if (!base && !(i && scale)) {
It's not *exactly* that. The first version executes emit_is8bit(disp), while the second one doesn't. You're correct that the return value of emit_is8bit(disp) doesn't appear to matter to the C<if> statement itself. Pm