Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pegasus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!pegasus!hansen From: hansen@pegasus.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news.b Subject: line eater still lives Message-ID: <1481@pegasus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 11-Jul-84 21:30:35 EDT Article-I.D.: pegasus.1481 Posted: Wed Jul 11 21:30:35 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 13-Jul-84 03:08:49 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft NJ Lines: 19 Somewhere along the following path, the line eater bug is alive and well! Tony Hansen pegasus!hansen Path: pegasus!hogpc!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hpda!fortune!wdl1!jbn Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: C standard Message-ID: <351@wdl1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 10-Jul-84 18:01:09 EDT Lines: 38 s easily processable by user programs), so the ANSI experience with FORTRAN is not relevant. It is also possible to generate better code when the compiler has the argument types at call time (one need not expand chars to ints, for example, an expensive operation on machines with 32-bit ints and 16-bit data paths). ....