From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c0f035b936128b6c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,c0f035b936128b6c X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Ada95 to ANSI_C converter Date: 1997/04/07 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 231376250 References: <5hbrah$ctt$1@gail.ripco.com> Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Date: 1997-04-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > Jon said > > < 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.>> > > incidentally I definitely see how you could read Bob's statement the > way you did, rereading it. I guess the reason I did not read it that > way was because I knew that would be a completely false implication, > and I assumed, perhaps too charitably, that no one would make the > claim that it would be possible to eliminate the penalty for overflow > checking when generating C :-) I read it as it was written. Period. What is more, Bob has stated that this was what he wrote but that he meant to indicate that he didn't know a) if the "tricks" were really successful nor b) whether the "tricks" involved generated C. We all now know that it appears that these "tricks" were not successful and in certain respects cannot be successuful. > You on the other hand, I guess really wanted it to be possible to > generate efficient C, so you were happy to read it more optimistically. Here you are just plain wrong. I have no desires here one way or the other since I have no stake in the matter whatsoever. Other than knowing the actual facts, I don't really care about the issue at all. > Just goes to show that it is not easy to be 100% clear in email! This is absolutely true! /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com