Re: Is it valid?

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1995 10:44

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In <4a75e2$cgj@pyrrhus-f.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> hfst@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de (Hans Steffani) writes:

>Is something like
>
> ("Hallo");
>
>valid code? I thought it is code which does not do
>anything but is valid but my compiler complains about.

If this line appears as a statement in a function body, it is a perfectly
legal expression statement.  Of course, the compiler is free to emit
diagnostics (e.g. "warning: statement with no effect") but it has to
translate your code correctly.  Otherwise, your compiler is broken.

Dan
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