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Subject: Pascal
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Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 16:24:00 EST
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> that you don't see.  The VMS common code generator and optimizer is used
> with Pascal and does a reasonably good job at optimizing this unseen
> stuff.  Fortran, on the other hand (last I heard any way) used it's own
> code generator and optimizer.  The two backends do similar things but
> not EXACTLY the same things.
> Chris Johnson
 
I think Pascal uses it's own code generator.  When Pascal 3.0 came
out, there were some DECUS sessions on the code generator and it was not
the same as the VAX common code generator (used for PL/I, C, Ada, and possibly
something called PEARL).
 
        /Kevin Carosso              kvc%engvax.UUCP@usc-oberon.usc.edu