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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Another silly question
Message-ID: <17635@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 89 05:32:58 GMT
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <749@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
[in response to article <607@kl-cs.UUCP> by pc@cs.keele.ac.uk (Phil Cornes)]
>Can you explain why compilers produce different code for "a[i]" and "*(a+i)"?

I have never observed one to do so.  There is no reason for a compiler
to generate different code, as the expressions are semantically identical.
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