On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 02:37:05PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I was thinking of "y" as a simple variable, but if it is something more > > complex, then the compiler could do this, right? > > > > char *x; > > > > y; > > x = z; > > Yeah. I presume it has to maintain the ordering, though. Agreed. Unless of course y writes to x or some such. Given that there is already code in the Linux kernel relying on dependencies being carried through stores to local variables, this should not be a problem. Or am I missing something? Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
