Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1.chuqui 4/7/84; site voder.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!nsc!voder!gbs
From: gbs@voder.UUCP (George Smith)
Newsgroups: net.lang.mod2
Subject: one pass compiler
Message-ID: <324@voder.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 13:26:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: voder.324
Posted: Thu Aug 23 13:26:58 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Aug-84 06:51:27 EDT
Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara
Lines: 17

[munch a bunch]

   In the article "A Portable Optimizing Compiler for Modula-2" from
SIGPLAN Notices Vol. 19, #6, June 1984 written by M. L. Powell it
mentions that Modula-2 permits statements to reference identifiers
that are defined later in the compilation and therefore requires
a multi-pass compiler.  The marketing literature that I obtained
from Volition Systems at the last West Coast Computer Faire states
that their compiler is a "fast one-pass compiler".  Would someone
in the know please comment.

George Smith
Digital Signal Processing
National Semiconductor
...!ihnp4!nsc!voder!gbs
...!ucbvax!voder!gbs