Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Assembly or ....ok
Message-ID: <1988Dec15.180728.1899@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <11915@cup.portal.com> <207600012@s.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 88 18:07:28 GMT

In article <207600012@s.cs.uiuc.edu> carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>... One of their products is FlightSimulator (what MicroSoft puts
>their name on and sells as if they wrote it). The object code for it is
>far more than 1K long, and no compiler every matched it for speed or
>compactness...

This is arguably an unfair example, since the 80x86 is a model of how to
design a machine to make life difficult for compiler writers, unless
your program will fit in 64KB.  (The 80x86 is fun in other ways too, but
the >16-bit pointers are an unrelieved nightmare.)
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