From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: charles.unix.pro@gmail.com (Charles Anthony) Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:38:06 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] tool (that wnj wrote?) that reduced the data segment size? In-Reply-To: <1448753456.23036.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> References: <1448753456.23036.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> Message-ID: On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Norman Wilson wrote: > > I didn't (and still don't) like Joy's heavy-handed hack, but I > see his point, and think it's just fine for the language rules > to allow the compiler to do it hacklessly. > > IIRC, in "The Design of an Optimizing Compiler", it says something like: "The Optimizing Compiler Writer's Motto: It is no sin to make a wrong program worse." -- Charles -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: