Re: [RFC PATCH] LKMM: Add ctrl_dep() macro for control dependency
From: Alan Stern
Date: Sat Oct 02 2021 - 10:41:32 EST
On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 02:10:08PM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> Compilers understand you want exactly what you wrote. If you write
> something other than what you want, you only will get what you want by
> pure luck.
The problem is that at times you _can't_ write what you want because the
language offers no way to express it.
Alan