Marcus Meissner meissner@suse.de writes:
I think even "tiny" is an exaggeration. Gcc has been capable of doing this for years and years. I'd be surprised if you could find a compiler that could not, and still compile wine satisfactory.
I guess such changes are acceptable if it makes the sourcecode more readable.
Here it's not clear at all that one is more readable than the other; and in such a case the policy is that whoever writes the code in the first place gets to decide how it's done.