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by marco2357 4063 days ago
Can you elaborate on that? What's the C code, the translated Java code and your expected Java code?

Thanks!
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snnw 4063 days ago
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=duff%27s+device&l=1#
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marco2357 4063 days ago
I saw that ;-) The translation is:

  do {

    to.set((from = from.shift(1)).get(-1));

  } while(--count > 0);
which looks correct to me. Hence my question what orodley thinks is wrong.
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jmuhlich 4063 days ago
I think you might be looking at the wrong thing on the Wikipedia page. The core feature of Duff's Device is interleaved switch and do statements:

  n = (count + 7) / 8;
  switch (count % 8) {
  case 0: do { *to = *from++;
  case 7:      *to = *from++;
  case 6:      *to = *from++;
  case 5:      *to = *from++;
  case 4:      *to = *from++;
  case 3:      *to = *from++;
  case 2:      *to = *from++;
  case 1:      *to = *from++;
          } while (--n > 0);
  }
(extraneous register statements removed for conciseness)
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marco2357 4063 days ago
That would be a bug in the translation. We'll investigate. Thanks!
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marco2357 4063 days ago
Yes indeed. We handled goto into do-while statements wrong. Fixed now. Thanks!
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