I just found this in client_state.C, garbage_collect() :

if (wup->avp && wup->avp->had_failure(failnum))

I'm more familiar with C that with C++. In C, short circuit evaluation is an optional optimization - usually "on" by default but still optional.

So if avp doesn't exist it still might be curious about the return value of avp->had_failure()

In K&R C, short circuit is not optional, it is part of the language definition. Which compiler made that optional?

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> In K&R C, short circuit is not optional, it is part of the language
> definition. Which compiler made that optional?


I will try to find it out - it had to be switched off by an option or pragma, it was on by default of course. Might have been Watcom or Lattice where I saw that, not a *ix compiler I think.


edit: I don't have that old Lattice anymore, will check Watcom on Monday

edit2 : Stupid me *blush* I found where I had this option - it was TP for DOS (Pascal) - sorry for posting nonsense here :-/

> i just downloaded the source for the client
>
> ...
> fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'std_fixes.h': No such file or
> directory
>
> downloaded file was
>
> seti_boinc-client-cvs-2004-10-23
> ...


I think this file needs to be taken from the BOINC core project and isn't part of the SETI project client.

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/source/nightly/