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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> My point is, I would leave that stuff to the compiler developers. I
> trust them more than me and my programmers! (:-))

It's precisely because people make mistakes that you want a
line of code to always mean the same thing. Otherwise, you
can wind up with something that has unspecified behavior but
happens to do what you want on a given platform, and then it
is liable to break with changes in compiler, or system, or
level of optimization, or being looked at funny.