On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:12:19PM +0100, Alberto Simões wrote:
> Hi, Folks.
>
> There are a few files on the parrot source where the compiler complains
> about a logic value that is always true.
>
> Let us check a specific case:
>
> on src/jit_emit.h:231,
>
> if (!base && !(i && scale) && (!emit_is8bit(disp) || 1)) {
>
> This is exactly
>
> if (!base && !(i && scale)) {
It's not *exactly* that. The first version executes
emit_is8bit(disp), while the second one doesn't.
You're correct that the return value of emit_is8bit(disp)
doesn't appear to matter to the C<if> statement itself.
Pm
