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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Bizarre Code
Message-ID: <490@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 22:12:34 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 27 22:12:34 1985
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>From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
>Message-ID: <554@grkermi.UUCP>
>Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
>
>When writing an overlaid program on HP-2100/RTE, you had to include a statement
>like
>
>	IF (2 .EQ. 4) CALL MAIN
>
>because the linker wouldn't load the main unless there was a reference to it -
>but if you actually *called* MAIN, your program would restart... therefore the
>above.  (Optimization?  Constant folding?  What are those?)

Ulp! By any chance did this FORTRAN let you change the value of a constant
by passing it to a subroutine, as in:

		CALL FOO(2)
		.
		.
		.
		SUBROUTINE FOO(I)
		I=I + 2
		RETURN
		END

Each is bizarre enough alone, but together.....

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