From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Ada95 to ANSI_C converter
Date: 1997/04/07
Date: 1997-04-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <JSA.97Apr7164344@alexandria> (raw)
In-Reply-To: JSA.97Mar28134228@alexandria
In article <dewar.860206887@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> Jon says
>
> <<Emphasis mine. I read "to catch overflows efficiently" as being
> interchangeable with "to avoid inefficiencies in catching overflows".
> I think Bob has already agreed with this, but that he meant to also
> say he didn't really know for sure if it worked.>>
>
> If Bob DID mean to imply that ICC avoided all efficiency penalties
> in handling overflows in C generated code, that's just plain wrong!
No universal quantifiers are written in this nor are any presumed and
I doubt any were intended (this is absolutely true for my part). I'm
not sure why you bring them in - they're irrelevant and confusing.
> So, let's not obscure the semantics here.
Indeed.
> The bottom line here is that there is a significant efficiency
> penalty in generating C, and it cannot be eliminated, no matter how
> clever you are!
I don't think anyone is suggesting otherwise and haven't been for some
time now...
/Jon
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1997-03-26 0:00 ` Ada95 to ANSI_C converter Nick Roberts
1997-03-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Craig Franck
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Arthur Schwarz
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Peter Seebach
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Kaz Kylheku
1997-04-08 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Philip Johnson
1997-04-01 0:00 ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Philip E. Johnson
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Craig Franck
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-01 0:00 ` David Kristola
1997-04-01 0:00 ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-04-01 0:00 ` Tom Wheeley
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Craig Franck
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-04-01 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-03-27 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony [this message]
1997-04-07 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-28 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-31 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-03-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-03-31 0:00 ` David Emery
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-04-03 0:00 ` Jennifer E. Lee
1997-04-04 0:00 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
1997-04-16 0:00 Dan Lehman
1997-04-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-20 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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