Re: Sequencing guarantees for macro versions of standard functions

From	Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Sequencing guarantees for macro versions of standard functions
Date	2022-01-23 23:50 -0800
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Andrey Tarasevich <andreytarasevich@hotmail.com> writes:
> On 1/23/2022 7:56 PM, Andrey Tarasevich wrote:
>> On 1/23/2022 7:36 PM, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>>>
>>> However, the suggested rewrite has different semantics than the
>>> previous single assignment with function call.  If we want to
>>> keep the same semantics but still be able to use the macro
>>> form (but without any sequencing issues), a different writing
>>> is needed, as for example
>>>
>>>      x = modf( x, (double[]){ 0 } );
>>>
>>> Writing the call this way should make it obvious that the value
>>> stored in/through the second argument is ignored and discarded.
>> That would be
>>        x = modf( x, &(double[]){ 0 } );
>> 
>
> Opps, my sitake. Sorry, I missed the `[]` part.
>
> Of course, your original variant is correct. Although I don't see the
> point of bringing arrays into the picture. One can just do
>
>   x = modf( x, &(double){ 0 } );

My preference would be:

    double ignored;
    x = modf(x, &ignored);

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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Sequencing guarantees for macro versions of standard functions Andrey Tarasevich <andreytarasevich@hotmail.com> - 2022-01-20 15:59 -0800
  Re: Sequencing guarantees for macro versions of standard functions Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-01-20 16:35 -0800
    Re: Sequencing guarantees for macro versions of standard functions Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2022-01-23 14:38 -0800
      Re: Sequencing guarantees for macro versions of standard functions Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-01-23 19:36 -0800
        Re: Sequencing guarantees for macro versions of standard functions Andrey Tarasevich <andreytarasevich@hotmail.com> - 2022-01-23 19:56 -0800
          Re: Sequencing guarantees for macro versions of standard functions Andrey Tarasevich <andreytarasevich@hotmail.com> - 2022-01-23 19:58 -0800
            Re: Sequencing guarantees for macro versions of standard functions Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2022-01-23 23:50 -0800
            Re: Sequencing guarantees for macro versions of standard functions Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-01-24 07:27 -0800
        Re: Sequencing guarantees for macro versions of standard functions Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2022-01-23 23:49 -0800
          Re: Sequencing guarantees for macro versions of standard functions Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-01-24 07:31 -0800
            Re: Sequencing guarantees for macro versions of standard functions Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2022-01-24 13:18 -0800
              Re: Sequencing guarantees for macro versions of standard functions Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2022-01-29 03:36 -0800

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