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| From: | anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:04:17 GMT |
| Organization: | Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien |
| References: | 18-04-029 |
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| Keywords: | design, history |
| Posted-Date: | 10 Apr 2018 14:07:18 EDT |
Martin Ward <martin@gkc.org.uk> writes:
>Yet, for all that complexity, "C combines the power of assembly language
>with the flexibility of assembley language"!
I wish! The C standard allows that, but does not guarantee it, so
providing that power and flexibility is a quality-of-implementation
issue. And unfortunately, at least the gcc and LLVM maintainers do
not want to provide this quality. A manifesto of this position is
http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-know.html
my counter-position papers are:
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/kps2015/proceedings/KPS_2015_submission_29.pdf
http://www.kps2017.uni-jena.de/proceedings/kps2017_submission_5.pdf
- anton
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M. Anton Ertl
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/
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