From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: Interfacing with C ; an ununsed fields dilemma
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 19:03:07 -0500
Date: 2009-07-03T19:03:07-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <h2m697$k3r$1@munin.nbi.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccprcjrsek.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com
"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message
news:wccprcjrsek.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com...
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> The compiler cannot ALWAYS do block compare, for two reasons:
> Minus-zero equals plus-zero (for floats).
Also for integers, if you are on a one's complement machine. (Those
generally are older machines, but some are still in use.)
...
> And user-defined "=" on
> the components gets called in the tagged case.
And soon to be all records (see AI05-0123-1, approved in Brest).
Randy.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-02 6:20 Interfacing with C ; an ununsed fields dilemma Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-07-02 9:25 ` Martin
2009-07-02 18:14 ` reserved fields; was " tmoran
2009-07-02 9:45 ` Maciej Sobczak
2009-07-02 12:01 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-07-02 12:09 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-07-02 13:21 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-07-02 15:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-07-02 14:52 ` Maciej Sobczak
2009-07-02 23:21 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-07-03 7:21 ` Maciej Sobczak
2009-07-02 9:51 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-07-02 10:16 ` Martin
2009-07-02 11:48 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-07-02 15:55 ` Robert A Duff
2009-07-04 0:03 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2009-07-03 6:59 ` anon
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