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Sender: vheyndri AT rug DOT ac DOT be
Message-Id: <344DEBB4.6CED@rug.ac.be>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 14:04:04 +0200
From: Vik Heyndrickx <Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be>
Mime-Version: 1.0
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: djgpp workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: libc & -Wsign-compare
References: <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 971022134801 DOT 7612F-100000 AT is>

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Vik Heyndrickx wrote:
> 
> > --f->_cnt > -f->_bufsiz
> >
> > I don't understand this, and since understanding is quite important in
> > doing these changes, could someone please inlighten me what this
> > expression actually means:
> >
> > f->_cnt-1 > -f->_bufsiz
> 
> No, it means (f->_cnt = f->_cnt-1) > -f->_bufsiz (side effects are
> important).

Of course, side effects are important! But that side effect is not my
problem, so I omitted the side effect, simply because I don't want
people to spend the time to explain me what --a or a-- means.

Tx

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