From: Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
To: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: New problems with gcc-2.8.0 based code - NOW FIXED!
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 13:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9712302138.AA02753@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199712302041.MAA25118@atrus.synopsys.com>
Joe, you must be kiddin'
> Imagine a C-like language where functions are pure
> (side-effect-free) by default, and one had to say "impure"
> to turn this off. Clearly it would be reasonable to make
> void functions "impure" by default, and it would seem
> strange to be swayed by the argument that a pure void
> function cannot then be written. A pure void function
> is necessarily a no-op, same as a nonvolatile asm
> instruction with no outputs.
You are describing a Fortran-95 PURE FUNCTION :-)
[ IMPURE functions, obviously, are SUBROUTINEs ... ]
Cheers,
Toon.
next parent reply other threads:[~1997-12-30 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <199712302041.MAA25118@atrus.synopsys.com>
1997-12-30 13:45 ` Toon Moene [this message]
[not found] <E0xnN2N-0005UN-00@paddington.london.uk.eu.org>
[not found] ` <199801030231.DAA25241@mail.macqel.be>
1998-01-05 10:13 ` Paul Koning
[not found] <9712302324.AA01798@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
1997-12-30 16:39 ` Paul Koning
[not found] <9712302109.AA01369@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
1997-12-30 14:41 ` Paul Koning
1997-12-30 23:05 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] <9712301949.AA01218@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
1997-12-30 13:52 ` Paul Koning
1997-12-30 12:27 ` Linus Torvalds
1997-12-10 23:09 cannot bootstrap neither gcc-2.8.0-971206 nor egcs-971207 on sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3 Manfred.Hollstein
1997-12-22 12:06 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-12-26 8:11 ` New problems with gcc-2.8.0 based code [was: Re: cannot bootstrap neither gcc-2.8.0-971206 nor egcs-971207 on sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3 ] Manfred Hollstein
1997-12-27 12:13 ` New problems with gcc-2.8.0 based code - NOW FIXED! Manfred Hollstein
1997-12-28 23:23 ` Richard Stallman
1997-12-29 7:48 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-12-29 11:17 ` Manfred Hollstein
1997-12-29 10:20 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-12-30 8:57 ` Manfred Hollstein
1997-12-30 9:47 ` Andi Kleen
1998-01-01 10:02 ` Manfred Hollstein
1997-12-30 11:33 ` Philip Blundell
1997-12-30 13:17 ` Paul Koning
1997-12-29 11:08 ` Manfred Hollstein
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