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
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