Re: reading a text file into a string

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> When the programmer can do something simple like this to improve program
> performance, it should be supported by all compilers.  (Notice that this
> is an error, not a warning.) I can see not supporting the subtype case
> due to the (potential) requirement for either large stack frames or
> varying size stack frames.  But for an object that can be allocated at
> link time, I don't see why it shouldn't be supported.

What's an object allocated at link time? I don't know of any such thing (you
can allocate segments at link time, but the number of those is quite
limited).

Similarly, do you know of *any* compiler for *any* language that supports
256 byte alignment? I don't, at least on Windows. As far as I know, the
largest alignment on Windows is paragraph. (There may be choices for larger
alignments in the linker structures, but I would guess that if they are't
used by the C compiler, they don't work. That's certainly been our
experience with linkers on Windows, SunOS, SCO Unix, the U2000, etc.
Virtually nothing we tried would work until we duplicated precisely what the
local C compiler generated. Then all is fine...)

                       Randy.