C optimizer
Lawrence V. Cipriani
lvc at cbnews.ATT.COM
Fri Feb 24 02:09:38 AEST 1989
In article <1028 at frog.UUCP> john at frog.UUCP (John Woods) writes:
>I think that if
>
> (getpid() != getpid())
>
>ever evaluated to 1, I would be severely astonished.
How about if the left hand getpid() is called, and before the right hand
getpid() is called a signal comes in, causing a signal handler to be called,
then the signal handler does a fork. Then, the interrupt handler returns
and the right hand getpid() is called. Voila!
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Larry Cipriani, att!cbnews!lvc or lvc at cbnews.att.com
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