From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
Message-Id: <200211181427.gAIER6t09101@skeeve.com>
To: gwyn@arl.army.mil
Subject: Re: [9fans] how to avoid a memset() optimization
In-Reply-To: <3DD3D463.BE431AC7@arl.army.mil>
References: <3DD357DE.7070903@null.net> <200211141446.JAA19343@math.psu.edu>
Cc: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 16:27:06 +0200
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In article <3DD3D463.BE431AC7@arl.army.mil> you write:
>My general feeling is that it is way too late to "fix" C, but a
>C-like language could be designed to take into account what we
>should have learned from actual C experience.  However, I don't
>know who I would trust to get it right.

Why, Dennis Ritchie, of course.

What would be really cool would be to do it as front end to GCC.
Then we'd get portability to all the architectures it supports in
one short.

AND we'd get all the nifty optimisations that GCC does, for free!

Oh! ... Wait a minute....  Never mind.

:-)

Arnold