awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas) (06/23/89)
In response to a question about Microsoft C generating a tricky inline abs() function, I pulled up a copy of MSC and found that a straightforward library routine was generated, instead. I also questioned the ethics of asking for reverse-engineered source code in the first place. Several other posters found the trick code by turning optimization on and reported it to the net. The ethics question is apparently moot because Microsoft itself had published the trick earlier. My apologies for my previous, essentially no-op, posting. I am posting this summary for the benefit of a particularly rude email'er who implied that dBASE suffers from my failure to turn on optimization. dBASE IV was not compiled using Microsoft C, therefore this fellow willl have to think of some other basis for his unspecified criticism of one of the most popular application programs ever written. /alastair/ Disclaimer: The usual. My opinions. No one else's. Just mine.