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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Type punning in C
Message-ID: <8461@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 13 Oct 89 00:58:00 GMT
References: <475@idacrd.UUCP> <10950@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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(You could read the parent twice; I did not include it twice.)

In article <10950@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> diamond@ws.sony.junet (Norman Diamond) writes:
 > In article <475@idacrd.UUCP> desj@idacrd.UUCP (David desJardins) writes:
 > 
 > >      X = OR (I, 0).
 > >(The Cray FORTRAN compiler optimizes out the trivial OR instruction.)
 > 
 > Looks like the Cray Fortran compiler has a bug.  The result of OR(I,0)
 > should be an integer,

This ought to be in comp.lang.fortran; but nevertheless: no Mr Diamond.
OR is not a standard (generic) function in Fortran so Cray may play all
games with it (and defines it as typeless).
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