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    SubjectRe: Patch to remove undefined C code
    On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Helge Hafting wrote:

    > Bernd Schmidt wrote:
    > >
    > > I've been playing with some gcc patches to detect code with undefined
    > > behaviour of the i = i++ variety. The patch below fixes all places in
    > > the kernel that I could find. Note that in some cases, it wasn't
    > > entirely clear what the code intended, so I had to guess.
    >
    > Please don't guess. Look at the generated assembly, then make the
    > unambigous code do whatever the old code did. Chances are high it
    > worked ok by luck, as misbehaving code tend to get noticed as
    > it fails.

    That does seem to be true for all parts except the tulip code. I did
    look at the assembly where I was in doubt.

    Bernd

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