[email protected] once said:
> Quoth [email protected]:
> > Why do we warn about non-interruptible
> > temporaries? What issues am I missing?
>
> Silence to this question means no one knows, right?
There is nothing new under the sun.
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 14:10:20 -0400
From: Russ Cox <[email protected]>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 'non-interruptable temporary' warning
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
the compiler is warning you against its own laziness.
in this case it is using a global temporary to hold the
intermediate value of (lba = f->lba) while converting
it to uchar. if you had another thread running through
this code it would use the same temporary.
[...]
Cheers,
Anthony
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