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From: fouts@lemming.nas.nasa.gov.nas.nasa.gov (Marty Fouts)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran versus C for numerical analysis
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Date: 9 Sep 88 01:44:44 GMT
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In article <3349@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>The problem with C is that
>it provides _no_ way to force a given order of expression evaluation

I can't let you get away with this.  _no_ way is very strong.  C
allows you to break the expression up into subexpressions, calculate
the subexpressions into temporary variables and then combine the temps
into the final expression.  If you don't run the optimizer on this
code, you are going to get exactly what you express.  (;-)

Marty


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