Ciao,
20 feb 2026, 23:15 da [email protected]:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2026, martin_n_fuller wrote:
>
>> GCC 16 doesn't optimize away the unused return value from mpz_class
>> post-increment in code like "mpz_class a = 1; a++;".
>>
>
> That's just normal C++ rules, nothing specific to GMP or gcc-16. There are
> very few cases where optimizations are allowed to change the output of a
> program (like the one you included in your email), and this is not one of
> them. And a++ both increments and returns the old value, so it has to create
> a separate object.
>
When I learned this, I started replacing every "a++" with "++a" wherever they
are equivalent (i.e. when the return value is not used). And of course for the
same reason I prefer "--i" to "i--".
I mean, I should have written the loop like:
for (size_t k = 0; k < 1000000; ++k) {
++a;
}
Should we add in the documentation a note: "Remember that ++C is more efficient
that C++"? :-D
Ĝis,
mb
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