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In article <9224402.5239@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON) writes:
>beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard) writes:
>
>[...]
>>One advantage of Pascal over C is that the Pascal is
>>embedded in the code and C is not (C must call standard library while
>>standard Pascal can expend more directly some statements like the
>>print (Fortran do the same).  
>
>This is not true.
>
>A C compiler may well expand calls to standard functions, like
>	printf("%s\n",s);
>with equivalent but more efficient code, eg.
>	puts(s);
>Indeed such compilers do exist, although they are not common.
>
>See the recent discussion on comp.lang.fortran.
>
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I doubt this is "standard C" compiler.  The reason is that in C
you can redefine all functions.  Changing printf for puts means that
printf definition is frozen.

To remain standard, nobody should redefine the standard functions (i.e.
alter printf meaning), but the possibility exists.

Anyway, since this will improve the result of compilation, we have
to accept the existence of such not-standard process (or is it standard with
the inclusion of standard function names?).  

Final point, you talk about discussions about Fortran.  Fortran, like Pascal,
has reserved keywords that eases optimization, while C has a very small
number of reserved keywords.  If Borland wants to import optimization
a la Pascal in the C compiler to improve the product, we may also
expect the standard of C to evoluate (just like the Fortran 90 is a step
over Fortran 77 and Fortran 66) since Borland has the largest number of
C programmers in its marketshare.

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