[fpc-pascal] New feature: IfThen() intrinsic

[Sven Barth]

Am 02.02.2016 13:56 schrieb "Serguei TARASSOV" <serge at arbinada.com>:
>
> On 02/02/2016 13:41, fpc-pascal-request at lists.freepascal.org wrote:
>>
>> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 13:22:01 +0100
>> From: Jonas Maebe<jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>
>>
>> Michael Van Canneyt wrote on Tue, 02 Feb 2016:
>>
>> [evaluating all arguments to a function/intrinsic]
>>
>>> >I'm just trying to to put any foaming-at-the-mouth argumentation
>>> >using this particular argument in perspective.
>>
>> I think this is rather disingenuous after your own
>> foaming-at-the-mouth hyperbole (?) of reverting all changes and
>> temporarily shutting down the svn server if someone else did something
>> that you considered to be fundamentally wrong.
>>
>>
>>> >For a correct understanding: The compiler must behave predictable at
all
>>> >times, no arguing there. But I don't think that iif() having different
>>> >semantics than all other functions, is a problem.
>>
>> Including all other functions called iif().
>>
>>
>>> >It just needs to be
>>> >documented properly. It is a non-issue for me.
>>
>> It is a deal breaker for me.
>
> Completely agreed with Jonas.
> I'm afraid to stay with FPC 2.6 for the near future and support Delphi
compatibility.
> Seems, the guys from GNU C are more responsible because of many
mission-critical code compiled with.

More responsible?! Apparently you haven't read the one or other report
where they f***ed up some code, because they added optimizations that did
the wrong(TM) thing.
I'll have to check whether I can find that example again...

Regards,
Sven
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