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From: krowitz@richter.mit.edu (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Bug in pas compiler
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Date: 16 Oct 90 13:34:14 GMT
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I have wasted hours and hours of my employer's time fiddling with C and
Pascal code and then looking at the psuedo-assember listing produced with
the -exp switch in order to get the compilers to produce "Real Smart code"
(ie. efficient code). Things like trying to convince the compiler that
once a pointer has been loaded into an address register, it does not have
to be reloaded on each pass of the loop.

On the other hand, I've gotten *real* good at finding compiler errors by
just looking at the psuedo-assembler ... when, oh, when, is HP/Apollo
going to release a real assembler so we can hand code our program kernals
the way we want them?


 -- David Krowitz

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