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From: gisle@oslo-vax.ARPA (Gisle Hannemyr)
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Subject: Dhrystone in C.
Message-ID: <1250@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 5-Jan-86 06:34:11 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan  5 06:34:11 1986
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The following is posted on behalf of a collegue without access to the
net:

The translation Rick Richardson did from ADA to C  contains  one  bug
(at  least  in  the copy I received). The variable String1Loc (called
String_Loc_1 in Comm.   ACM, Oct.   84, Vol.    27,  No  10)  is  not
initialized  in  the  C  version.   As  a  consequence,  the  lexical
comparization in the function Func2 (called Func_2  originally)  will
terminate  on  the  first character, instead on the 20'th.  This will
improve the no. of Dhrystones/sec. with approx. 20 %.

The  String1Loc  should  be  initialized just before the main loop in
Proc0 (Proc_0) starts.

- Haakon Bugge (c/o gisle@oslo-vax.ARPA)