>
> There is a story behind it: our product was shipping for hpux
> and was later ported to sinix. It had some instabilities during
> development (it was first developed for hpux, then the enhancements were
> ported to sinix, almost in parallel).
>
> A colleague wrote (paraphrased)
>
> pointer->pointer->object.method;
Some compilers will emit something like:
Warning: Statement has no side effect
for expressions like this (at least, the Systems/C compiler does.)
>
> where he wanted
>
> pointer->pointer->object.method();
>
> hpux CC did not say a word. Naturally, the method had desired
> side effects :)
>
> /Marino
>
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