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From: hom@hocda.UUCP (H.MORRIS)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: structure and array and string comparisons
Message-ID: <392@hocda.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Mar-84 12:55:48 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 24 12:55:48 1984
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Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel
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Having a compiler that recognizes sequences like
if(x.y.z.elt1 == t.y.z.elt1 && x.y.z.elt2 == t.y.z.elt2 ...)
and generates a single block compare if appropriate
instead of implementing struct compares
*because we want to keep C simple*
would seem to me to defeate the purpose.