On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 02:35:53PM +1000, Grant Forest wrote:
> X=0x0f;
> Y=X;
> while ( ! (X&Y));
> What is the purpose of the while statment?

Assuming that what you have there is literally the sequence of code,
and X and Y are not modified by e.g. an interrupt routine, then
the answer is "not much". A good compiler will in fact optimise
it out of existence.

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