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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: QEMU Trivial <qemu-trivial@nongnu.org>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vnc: Fix packed boolean struct members
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:07:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F58F563.1020107@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F58DD6F.8080907@codemonkey.ws>

Il 08/03/2012 17:25, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>>
>> Looks like a GCC bug where
>>
>>     x = y = 0;
>>
>> is converted to
>>
>>     x = (y = 0) != 0;
> 
> Curious, why convert like this?  What does this optimization do?

Nothing, it's just that if "y = 0" is an int (for some reason, I didn't
check if it's implicit promotion or just that y is already an int), then
it has to be converted back to a truth value before assigning to bool.
If you do

  bool x;
  int y;

  x = y = 2;

x is actually set to 1.

Paolo

      reply	other threads:[~2012-03-08 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-25 13:35 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vnc: Fix packed boolean struct members Stefan Weil
2012-03-05 13:15 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-03-08 15:26 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-03-08 16:08   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-03-08 16:25     ` Anthony Liguori
2012-03-08 18:07       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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