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From: alex@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander Vrchoticky)
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Subject: Re: Unusual instructions and constructions
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Date: 13 Mar 91 14:45:55 GMT
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hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:

> Even the addition of two vectors to
> produce a result should have different C code on different machines.

For the purposes of design diversity? Are you sure you did not want to
type `machine' instead of `C' there?

> But the expressions themselves will have considerable
> portability, although if the expression is unknown in the target dialect, a
> dictionary will have to be provided.

Was hat man im Zusammenhang mit Compilertechnologie unter einem `Dictionary'
zu verstehen? Unter `Portabilitaet von Ausdruecken'?

[sorry, i could not resist :-)]

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