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From: ins_ajbh@jhunix.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: A branch too far
Message-ID: <4340@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Jan-87 16:19:51 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 27 16:19:51 1987
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Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ. Computing Ctr.
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Actually you can get the "branch too far" problem from big 
FOR loops as well. I feel it just another reflection of the 
sad state of the PCC based VAX C compiler. It often generates
unexpected and/or non-optimal assembly code. According to the
Berkely folks at USENIX they have made no improvements in the
compiler aside from fixing the signed/unsigned bugs. Has any 
outside work been done on fixing this turkey up.


-- 

jim

"Work is the Curse of the Drinking Class"