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From: brooks@lll-crg.ARPA (Eugene D. Brooks III)
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Subject: Vectorizing C compiler for the Cray (admission of guilt)
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Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 14:11:09 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 25 14:11:09 1985
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I guess that its time to let this razz die!  The original article for
this was indeed posted on April 1.  Due to the large amount of flaming
responses another member of the committee (who bears responsibility
for the joke in the first place) decided to add some fuel to the fire.

It is true that a C compiler is being developed for the Cray 1 here at
LLNL.  The compiler is being developed as a front end for the final pass
of the current Fortran compiler where vectorization and optimization
is done.  Hence vectorization will come for free and is for the most
part incidental.  It will be very much appreciated by numerical C users
like myself.

The pass by reference statement was an April 1 razz.  No one here would
think of doing such a thing to the C language (I hope).