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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: array indexing styles. was: Absolute addressing in Turbo-C
Message-ID: <657@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Sep-87 22:20:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.657
Posted: Sat Sep  5 22:20:33 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Sep-87 05:44:23 EDT
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Summary: Your optimisers are fried.

> [ optimisers which generate better code for *(a+n) then a[n] ]

Any compiler that generates different code for these two cases certainly needs
to be carefully looked at. You should assume that they will be treated
identically.
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