On Saturday, 1 August 2020 at 02:36:41 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
On Thursday, 30 July 2020 at 07:05:39 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
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Ah. I wasn’t thinking about pure, although I do use it
everywhere I can as a matter of course. The absence of
something doesn’t hit you in the eye as an expression of the
programmer’s intent I suppose, absence of pure just could mean
the author forgot to put it in. I see your point though. The
value of volatile I saw as in documentation.
When the baseline for asm is volatile, I don't think it's
entirely surprising to consider pure as a cancellation of that -
afterall, if it truly is side-effect free, then it's fine for the
compiler to remove the statement block.
