Re: GOTO is alive and well. Dijkstra, eat my pants
From: Richard Pennington (rich_at_pennware.com)
Date: 06/10/04
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 02:10:02 GMT
Steve at fivetrees wrote:
> I've occasionally *been* the compiler (i.e. I've designed in C, and then
> coded in assembler). So I do like to know that the automation of this
> process has done a decent job. I once had a compiler that threw a stack
> frame on every function call, whether data was passed or not. I either took
> it outside and shot it, or tweaked the optimisation - I forget now - but it
> did illustrate the wisdom of your observation.
I hope it wasn't my compiler. I wrote some pretty stupid ones, way back
when.
-Rich
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> Steve
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