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From: daveb@geac.UUCP (Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac C Compilers, Benchmarks, Stupidity
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Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 10:23:45 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 21 10:23:45 1987
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Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown)
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In article <3688@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West) writes:
>I would note that most Pascal compilers can assume that arrays
>are < 32 Kb long, or can at least tell short arrays from long
>arrays.  Because of the nature of C, any reasonable compiler
>must assume that any array can be any length, including longer
>than 32 Kb.
 Actually the compiler was assuming (and demanding!) that the array was
less than 32k bytes.  I wrote an explicit address expression and
looked to see how well the compiler was doing with it.  Surprise!
it did remarkably well.  And the code on either side looked good, too.

  But, back to the orig. request: will someone *please* do the same
stupidity test with MPW or a suitable Mac Pascal?

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