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The trouble with volatileThe trouble with volatilePosted May 15, 2007 12:20 UTC (Tue) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)In reply to: The trouble with volatile by IkeTo Parent article: The trouble with volatile
I spoke to the compiler optimizer lead at work. He assures me that assignment ONLY implies a write, even if the value of the assignment expression is used in a subsequent expression.
At least as far as he's concerned, "a = 2" should only compile to a write, and "a = b = 2" should compile to two writes. "a = b = c" should compile to one read (reading 'c'), and two writes (to 'a' and 'b').
That said, our compiler actually compiled "a = b = c" more like "b = c; a = c" (reading 'c' twice), which he indicated was a bug. GCC seems to compile "a = b = c" more like "b = c; a = b", which is actually pretty close to what the OP was suggesting would happen. (Read 'c', Write 'b'. Read 'b', write 'a'.) Fun stuff.
So... a secondary lesson is, "However YOU might have interpreted the C specification, chances are your compiler treats it differently for anything other than the simplest of expressions."
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