From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
To: Mark Dettinger <mdetting@yahoo.com>
Cc: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: pure and const functions
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:20:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0204261855320.29163-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020426120807.1657.qmail@web13609.mail.yahoo.com>
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Mark Dettinger wrote:
> A function is "pure", if it only examines its arguments, i.e. does not
> read global memory and does not take input from any device. In other
> words, if its behavior does not depend on the context.
Pure functions are pure functions of *the whole state of the machine*
(including global memory).
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/1999-08/msg00588.html
--
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-26 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-26 5:16 Mark Dettinger
2002-04-26 11:20 ` Joseph S. Myers [this message]
2002-04-26 12:59 ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-04-26 10:17 Chris Lattner
2002-04-26 10:21 ` Kris Warkentin
2002-04-26 10:30 ` Chris Lattner
2002-04-26 10:34 ` Magnus Fromreide
2002-04-26 10:35 ` Chris Lattner
2002-04-26 10:59 ` Magnus Fromreide
2002-04-26 11:03 ` Chris Lattner
2002-04-26 11:27 ` Magnus Fromreide
2002-04-26 12:49 ` Russ Allbery
2002-04-26 10:36 ` Kris Warkentin
2002-04-26 10:46 ` Chris Lattner
2002-04-26 10:26 ` Tim Hollebeek
2002-04-26 10:30 ` Chris Lattner
2002-04-26 10:56 ` Zack Weinberg
2002-04-26 11:01 ` Chris Lattner
2002-08-30 23:02 ` Zack Weinberg
2002-04-26 10:56 ` Tony Finch
2002-04-26 12:11 ` Mark Mitchell
2002-04-29 3:59 Mark Dettinger
2002-04-29 5:18 Robert Dewar
2002-04-29 5:44 ` Mark Dettinger
2002-04-29 8:30 Robert Dewar
2002-04-29 8:57 ` Chris Lattner
2002-04-29 8:30 Chris Lattner
2002-04-29 9:23 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-04-29 9:52 ` Chris Lattner
2002-04-29 9:58 ` Mark Dettinger
2002-04-29 9:29 Robert Dewar
2002-04-29 9:34 ` Chris Lattner
2002-04-29 17:25 John Wehle
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