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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "Numerical Recipes in C" is nonportable code
Message-ID: <13454@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 88 01:05:35 GMT
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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-In article <640@drilex.UUCP> dricej@drilex.UUCP (Craig Jackson) writes:
->* Note that putting the protection in the compiler was also an idea
->of Per Brinch-Hansen's in the 1970s, with Concurrent Pascal.  Burroughs
->had been doing it for many years, even then.

In article <1429@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
-What's to stop you from doing the following:
-
-	Generate code in an array.
-	Jump to the beginning of the array. *

Whenever the compiler is forced to generate `iffy' code, it also generates
tests such as tags to make sure that you do not do something like this.
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