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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: low level optimization
Message-ID: <1991May02.173643.9528@kithrup.COM>
Date: 2 May 91 17:36:43 GMT
References: <22687@lanl.gov> <4037@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> <22841@lanl.gov>
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In article <22841@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>If it is done by a
>post-translation tool, then it _is_ standard conforming.

Why do you have this hangup about "post-translation"?

ANSI says *nothing* about how code is produced, yet, obviously, the code you
write must be executed somehow.  Some systems, such as Saber-C, will execute
as they translate (or, perhaps, do a quick translation and then execute the
intermediate results).  Others can require you to type in 42 commands to
produce an executable that you can then run:  each of those 42 steps is part
of the "translation" process as, jim so ignorantly puts it.

The unix linker is, essentially, part of the "translation" process for C on
unix.  So there is no "post-translation" optimisation.

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