Multiple jumps in one instruction

Toon Moene toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl
Fri May 25 13:29:00 GMT 2001


Jonathan Buzzard wrote:

> jsm28@cam.ac.uk said:
> > Note that the ISO C committee ruled that function calls do not
> > overlap;   see DR#087.  So it would be inappropriate for GCC to
> > execute functions in  parallel even if there isn't a sequence point
> > between them.

> I know. However the people paying my wages want(need) a C/C++ compiler
> that does just that regardless of whether it breaks the standard. If
> necessary it is a new variant of C called C$ or something that differs
> from C/C++ in just this respect.

Ah, I see.  So switching to Fortran is not an option ...

	http://www.fortran.com/F77_std/sideff.jpg

:-)

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