------- Comment #4 from manus at eiffel dot com 2005-10-22 17:20 ------- I agree that relying on gcc's behavior might be the wrong thing to do, but when this is 15 years old code, you can expect that it will still continue to work. Moreover, it works on all the C compilers I've ever used except gcc 4.0. This includes: - SGI C compiler - Sun C compiler - Borland C - Microsoft C
Too bad that gcc 4.0 breaks this. The other things is that it occurs without any optimization. I realize that most of the `unspecified' in the standard is for allowing more optimization, but when you compile without them, it is rather strange that it does this one. Would it make sense to have a new option in `gcc' to say that target is always evaluated after source is? I think that would make transition to gcc 4.0. For now I can only recommend to my users to stick with the 3.x based versions. Regards, Manu -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24486
