Re:The Horror in the Standard Library
by Pica_soO on Saturday May 06, 2017 @04:29PM
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Sounds like optimization going haywire, deducing that the statement under question would constantly evaluate to this term.
Its valid to optimize a else statement out- if it will never be reached (Dead Codepath Optimizing out). Was there something akin to this in the statement?
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> Was there something akin to this in the statement?
It probably was the optimiser at fault, but there wasn't anything special about this conditional, and certainly nothing that _should_ have caused the optimiser to throw away the else branch.
If memory serves right it was comparing a string field of an object to a static string, like `someObject.foo == "some string"`.