[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#7279) Macro optimizations

["Arnstein Lindgard" <a-l@xxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=7279 >

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:10:39 -0800 rwetmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Some interesting comments on inline functions from Stroustrup.
> 
>    The order of evaluation of actual arguments to functions is undefined.
>    In particular, an inline expansion is not required to preserve the
>    order of evaluation of actual arguments that the implementation would
>    have produced for an out-of-line call. Since one call of a function in a
>    program may be inlined while another is handled by the normal function
>    call mechanism, this can lead to two calls to the same function with
>    identical actual arguments yielding different results.

Can the order of evaluation of function arguments really be relevant?


Arnstein