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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pl1,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: PL/I and C
- Date: Thu, 29 Feb 96 18:55:15 GMT
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- Message-ID: <825620115snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- References: <Pine.A32.3.91.960226004311.19148B-100000@black.weeg.uiowa.edu> <4h2qo2$39p2@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <AD5B28A096683BDAC@mcdiala12.it.luc.edu>
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- In article <AD5B28A096683BDAC@mcdiala12.it.luc.edu>
- VArase@varase.it.luc.edu "Verne Arase" writes:
-
- >In article <4h2qo2$39p2@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>,
- >dwnoon@ibm.net wrote:
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- > >There is nothing to stop you from doing this in PL/I too. It's just that
- >you
- > >don't need to. ... :-)
- >
- >... and as they're intrinsic to the language, inline optimizations can be
- >done so the call can even be eliminated ...
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- Standard library functions in C can also be inlined in the object code - the
- compiler is allowed to 'know' about them as long as the respective header
- file is included.
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
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