Re: GOTO controversy

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From: Dan Hicks
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 15:54

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In <19960405T033124Z@gyda.ifi.uio.no>, Erik Naggum <enag@gyda.ifi.uio.no> writes:
>[Lawrence Kirby]
>
>|   In some cases it is company policy to compile with optimisations turned
>|   off, this should not cause code to blow up.
>
>that may explain more than we want to know about the software business.

What it "explains" is that (a) optimizing compilers are all too often 
quite buggy, and (b) most languages (including C, C++, et al) don't 
provide adequate facilities to allow programmers to sufficiently specify
INTENT so that invalid (from the programmer's viewpoint) optimizations 
don't occur occasionally.

Dan Hicks
http://www.millcomm.com/~danhicks/

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From: danhicks@millcomm.com (Dan Hicks)
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Subject: Re: GOTO controversy
Date: 6 Apr 1996 15:54:18 GMT
Organization: Millennium Communications, Inc.
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