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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: What is faster Ada or C?
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Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
 
: One of the jumps is unreachable, so I think this is some kind of
: compiler bug (if this happens when optimization is turned on).

Why?  (An uninformed wild speculation on my side makes me play with
the thought that this need not in general be true. E.g. if a jump is
a cheap operation and no nop was available, and the processor is as
weird as I want it to be...  O.K., back to the book shelf. :-)