Broken compilers? (was Re: Comma Operator)

[Ken Arromdee]

>Of course, if the side-effect of such a "dead" thing was that your PDP-8's
>eleventeenth-bit-light blinked, and that bulb was removed and the electrical
>contacts hooked to your Mr. Coffee controller, and your new artificially-
>intelligent compiler reduced the expression and unwittingly eliminated the
>blink, and you failed the CS 101 exam because of caffeine withdrawal...
>
>That would be injustice, eh?

Yes.  In this case it should have been declared "volatile"...
:-) :-) :-)
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