Re: [Vala] Why the temporary variables in the C code are usefull ?

[Luca Bruno <lethalman88 gmail com>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 12:09:16PM -0500, Jim Peters wrote:
> Jacques-Pascal Deplaix wrote:
> > What are the side effects corrected by the temporary variables ?
>
> Unwanted side effects can happen if you evaluate an expression more
> than once, e.g. if you substituted the full expression for every
> _tmp2_ in the C code.  Expressions with side-effects include function
> calls and stuff which modifies variables, e.g. p++.  You don't want to
> do 'p++' twice or call the function twice.
>
> As the other poster said, C compilers are very good at optimising away
> temporary variables.

There've been a number of refactoring lately that will hopefully lead to
dropping lots of useless temporary variables. That's for the sake of C
code readability and smaller C code footprint.

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