Re: Is this a form of Data Flow Analysis, and what is the proper way solution to the problem?

Oliver Wong <owong@castortech.com> wrote:
>z = y = x;
>
> Which of the following outputs would be more "correct"?


There is no single generic right answer. Does the value of x get stored
to y and z, or does the value of x get stored to y, and then the new value
of y get stored to z? It depends on the language! (And I don't remember
just what Java says about it.) When type conversions are involved, the
two are not semantically equivalent -- for example, if x and z are
double-precision floating-point variables and y is single-precision, the
value of z depends on how the assignments are done.
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