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- From: danhicks@millcomm.com (Dan Hicks)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: GOTO controversy
- Date: 6 Apr 1996 15:54:18 GMT
- Organization: Millennium Communications, Inc.
- Message-ID: <4k643b$398@misery.millcomm.com>
- References: <314FB5F5.259B@simi.is> <3151B47F.70FD@connix.com> <oun34tm3c7.fsf@lynx.cs.byu.edu> <828656035snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <19960405T033124Z@gyda.ifi.uio.no>
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- In <19960405T033124Z@gyda.ifi.uio.no>, Erik Naggum <enag@gyda.ifi.uio.no> writes:
- >[Lawrence Kirby]
- >
- >| In some cases it is company policy to compile with optimisations turned
- >| off, this should not cause code to blow up.
- >
- >that may explain more than we want to know about the software business.
-
- What it "explains" is that (a) optimizing compilers are all too often
- quite buggy, and (b) most languages (including C, C++, et al) don't
- provide adequate facilities to allow programmers to sufficiently specify
- INTENT so that invalid (from the programmer's viewpoint) optimizations
- don't occur occasionally.
-
- Dan Hicks
- http://www.millcomm.com/~danhicks/
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