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From: rminnich@super.org (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula3
Subject: Re: optimization and garbage collection
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Date: 4 Jan 91 20:47:59 GMT
References: <91Jan2.131022pst.3117@arcturia.parc.xerox.com> <5142@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
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In article <5142@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase) writes:

|> Please note that this is very probably not a bug in the optimizer;
|> such behavior was predicted over 3 years ago.  This is one of the
|> hazards of using C as an intermediate language.  (I'm trying very hard
|> not to gloat too much.)

Any objection a more detailed explanation? 
I haven't looked at what this is doing, so am curious.
thanks,
ron

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