Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!pcrat!rick
From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Dhrystone 2.0
Message-ID: <501@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 88 13:11:21 GMT
References: <492@pcrat.UUCP> <20745@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
Lines: 21
Keywords: benchmark, inlining

In article <20745@amdcad.AMD.COM> tim@amdcad.UUCP (Tim Olson) writes:
>I have a question about the following statement in the dry2 sources:
>o No procedure merging
>Does this included library routines as well (strcpy, for example)? The
>reason I ask is that ANSI conforming C compilers are allowed to "know"
>the names of specific library routines, and generate inline code for
>them if it is beneficial.  Are library calls counted as part of the
>Dhrystone function call distribution?

Offhand, I'd say inlining strcpy is legal, since the original Ada
Dhrystone uses the built in string capability of the language,
whereas C has no such feature.  However, it would be prudent to
ask for Reinhold's answer.  His mail path is:

	uunet!mcvax!unido!estevax!weicker

-- 
		Rick Richardson, President, PC Research, Inc.

(201) 542-3734 (voice, nights)   OR     (201) 834-1378 (voice, days)
uunet!pcrat!rick (UUCP)			rick%pcrat.uucp@uunet.uu.net (INTERNET)