Broken compilers? (was Re: Comma Operator)

[Chris Torek]

->	printf("%d %d %d\n", (x = 1, y = 2), x, y);

In article <1904 at buengc.BU.EDU> bph at buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
-A while back, someone indicated that they knew of a compiler optimizer
-that would reduce something such as the above (ostensibly through
-constant-reduction) to
-
-printf("%d %d %d\n", (1,2), x, y);
-
-or maybe even
-
-printf("%d %d %d\n", 2, x, y);
-
-So, you compiler-writing C-programmers, is this thing broken or what?

Quite thoroughly, unless both x and y are `dead'.

The side effect(s), if any, of any expression that occurs anywhere
may not be arbitrarily deleted.
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