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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Optimization (was Re: volatile)
Message-ID: <2758@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 88 17:49:09 GMT
References: <13074@brl-adm.ARPA> <3938@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <3938@killer.UUCP> chasm@killer.UUCP (Charles Marslett) writes:
>I may be picky, but if flags to the compiler should not change the semantics
>of the language (in the broadest sense of the definition of semantics) -- what
>good are they. 

The sentiment behind this rhetorical question is precisely why it is
dangerous that ANSI-conformant compilers will silently ignore
unrecognized #pragmas.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi