Re: 2.5.8-dj1 : arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c error

[Adam Kropelin]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 01:53:55PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > of C and the "&&" operator say that "if the first is false, the
> > second needn't even be evaluated".  
> 
> That's what I would have thought.
> But I don't think it's the second part that causes the warning,
> it's the thing *inside* the if clause.

Exactly.

> > Could that be what's causing the warning?
> 
> To my mind, that's why we should *not* be getting a warning ?

Indeed. The optimization step that (presumably) removes the body
of the if() must happen after the body has been fully evaluated.
Makes sense, I guess, now that I think about it...

--Adam