Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!hc!lanl!jlg From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Array indexing vs. pointers... Message-ID: <3760@lanl.gov> Date: 20 Sep 88 00:13:05 GMT References: <33488@xait.CCA.COM> Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 19 From article <33488@xait.CCA.COM>, by g-rh@xait.CCA.COM (Richard Harter): > A smart compiler will take the first instance and generate something like > > tmp = a; > for (i=0;itmp1 = *tmp++; > same code referring to tmp1 > } A smarter compiler will generate code more like this: ttt=a+n for (tmp=a; tmp