Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!rex!uflorida!novavax!twwells!bill 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 References: <1098@cernvax.UUCP> <14052@lanl.gov> Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Lines: 10 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. --- Bill { uunet | novavax | ankh | sunvice } !twwells!bill bill@twwells.com