Re: 80386 C compiler

On 2024-11-27, James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:

On 11/27/24 14:42, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
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The specification has an inconsistency, because it gives the order
in which initializations occur, yet not the order of evaluation of
the expressions that produce their values.

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That's not an inconsistency, it's a deliberate choice to give
implementations freedom to use whichever order is most convenient.

Implementations are not given freedom about initialization order;
in { A, B } the initialization implied by A happens before B.

Granting a freedom here while taking it away there is inconsistent.

Expression B may rely on the initialization A having completed, but
not on the effects of A having been settled.

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