From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Precalculation of parameters (was: Software landmines)
Date: 1998/09/09
Date: 1998-09-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6t6hn9$t0m$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Ez0tp1.59L.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com
In article <Ez0tp1.59L.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com>,
stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft) wrote:
> dennison@telepath.com wrote:
>
> : Is that actually the rule?
>
> RM95 6.4(10) permits evaluation of parameters in an "arbitrary"
> order. RM95 1.1.4(18) defines "arbitrary" order, indicating
> that it must be an order that is equivalent to some sequential
> ordering. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^
Ahhh. That was the part I was missing. So language was specifically added to
the RM to prevent compilers from blindly parallelizing this. Out of
curiosity, what was the reason this was done? I can't find anything about it
in the Rationale.
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-08-22 0:00 Software landmines (was: Why C++ is successful) dewar
1998-08-23 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-08-23 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-08-23 0:00 ` dewar
1998-08-24 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1998-08-25 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-08-25 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-08-25 0:00 ` dennison
1998-08-28 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-28 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1998-08-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-06 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1998-09-07 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1998-09-07 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-09-08 0:00 ` Precalculation of parameters (was: Software landmines) dennison
1998-09-09 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-09-09 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1998-09-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-09-10 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-16 0:00 ` Software landmines (was: Why C++ is successful) Matthew Heaney
[not found] ` <35eca5d9.4354839@news.geccs.gecm.com>
1998-09-01 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
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