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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.

       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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