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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re^2: Oh noooooo!!
Message-ID: <1989Sep28.123415.11271@twwells.com>
Date: 28 Sep 89 12:34:15 GMT
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In article <14052@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
: So, the optimizer for C _cannot_ be any simpler than that for
: Fortran.

Sure it can. All it has to do is refuse to try to optimize once a
goto is encountered. All too many do just that.

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