hansen@pegasus.UUCP (07/12/84)
Somewhere along the following path, the line eater bug is alive and well!
Tony Hansen
pegasus!hansen
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Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: C standard
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Date: Tue, 10-Jul-84 18:01:09 EDT
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s easily processable by user programs), so the
ANSI experience with FORTRAN is not relevant. It is also possible
to generate better code when the compiler has the argument types
at call time (one need not expand chars to ints, for example, an
expensive operation on machines with 32-bit ints and 16-bit data
paths).
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