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From: limes@sun.uucp (Greg Limes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Put your code... (was Re: gotos
Message-ID: <51307@sun.uucp>
Date: 29 Apr 88 02:43:18 GMT
References: <2597@ttrdc.UUCP> <165600043@uiucdcsb> <1988Apr27.164212.12535@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: limes@sun.UUCP (Greg Limes)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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In article <1988Apr27.164212.12535@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>                                       It doesn't take much of an optimizer
>to notice that the instruction sequences preceding an unconditional control-
>flow merge are identical, and condense them into one by branching to the
>beginning of the sequence rather than the end.  

So the compiler can recognize the common code -- big deal. If I have
several cases, all of which want the same ten line trailer, I would
rather put it in one place than spread it out in my source. This calls
for a boolean, or (gasp) maybe even a goto.
-- 
   Greg Limes [limes@sun.com]				frames to /dev/fb