Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!unmvax!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: C compilers code generation Message-ID: Date: 1 Dec 90 03:53:17 GMT References: <90324.204949GIAMPAL@auvm.auvm.edu> Lines: 17 >In article dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes: [discussion of various builtins in SAS C] > builtins are generally useless and I sometimes wonder if Lattice added > them simply to optimize inefficiencies in their own source code. > Most of them seem to be rather useless. However, the builtin printf stuff can really cut down code size, because linking with the huge general purpose printf is not necessary. I think that it's probably best to inline calls to strlen and movmem if you have chosen to optimise speed over space. > Matthew Dillon dillon@Overload.Berkeley.CA.US -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |