From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Is an RTOS Required for Ada?
Date: 1999/05/28
Date: 1999-05-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7imvsr$5bg$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 374EC6EA.61519FAF@praxis-cs.co.uk
In article <374EC6EA.61519FAF@praxis-cs.co.uk>,
Rod Chapman <rod@praxis-cs.co.uk> wrote:
> Robert Dewar wrote:
> >
> My normal rule-of-thumb is "no surprises" - the compiler
> should not ever surprise me in its generated code, or (perhaps
> more simply put) generate code that I can't understand and
> map back to the source, irrespective of optimization
I don't think we can write into a standard that the code must
not surprise Rod Chapman :-)
Who knows what would surprise you.
Certainly if you know the Merced instruction set well, it would
surprise you NOT to see a simple if handled by predication (at
least it would surprise me). On this machine, that is the
natural way of handling things.
Obviously what one person expects and understands is going to
be quite different from what another person expects and
understands. The principle of "no optimization, no surprise"
is simply not one that can be given any formal definition.
Robert Dewar
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-05-13 0:00 Is an RTOS Required for Ada? Tramse
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Rakesh Malhotra
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Tramse
1999-05-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-19 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-25 0:00 ` George Romanski
1999-05-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-26 0:00 ` George Romanski
1999-05-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-06-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-28 0:00 ` Rod Chapman
1999-05-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-05-28 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-28 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-05-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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