From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!mcnc!rlgvax!guy Newsgroups: net.jokes Title: Re: Silly Programming Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1080 Posted: Wed Feb 23 03:25:43 1983 Received: Thu Feb 24 04:05:30 1983 I don't know whether this counts as "intentionally obscure" (since it is the output of a compiler, whether it is human-readable or not is irrelevant), but the Bliss-11 compiler would fold a sequence: mov #xxx,r0 ; DEC macro conventions used here ; some instruction whose first word has the value "xxx" which actually appears as mov (pc)+,r0 .word xxx .word xxx ; the aforementioned instruction into mov (pc),r0 .word xxx and the Ritchie C compiler's FINAL optimizer picked up the same idea. Guy Harris RLG Corporation ...!decvax!mcnc!rlgvax!guy