Pure Functions (was Re: C optimizer)

[Dik T. Winter]

In article <50915 at yale-celray.yale.UUCP> wald-david at CS.YALE.EDU (david wald) writes:
 > Point taken, but we still need a way to describe the difficulty with
 > treating sleep() as a pure function.
No problem, it performs a system call.  (And if you code sleep as a loop
without system call the compiler will be able to optimize it away.)
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