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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pascal --> C question
Message-ID: <7458@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 19 Mar 88 01:09:55 GMT
References: <12340@brl-adm.ARPA> <2351@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2351@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
-Another interesting optimization done by a VMS compiler, that competing
-vendors never thought of doing, is this.  If your C program contains
-     fflush(stdout);
-the VMS C compiler will optimize this into:
-     if (F$MODE == INTERACTIVE)       /* if interactive run */
-        fflush(stdout);
-     else
-        printf("\n");                 /* if batch run */

Is this true?  It's no wonder competing vendors didn't think of
doing it, because it's wrong.