Aztec C (was: more eBay stuff)  Chuck Guzis cclist at Mon Jun 4
15:33:44 CDT 2007  On 4 Jun 2007 at 20:42, Antonio Carlini
wrote:  > The whole point of C was (is?) to be fast. So in
certain areas the > compiler writer is given a certain latitude
to do whatever turns > out to be "best" for the compiler. So the
standard writers aren't being > particularly capricious, they
are deliberately avoiding tying down the > compiler writers with
red tape.  Trudging even further afield from the topic at
hand...  The odd thing about this is that it seems to be that
the more  restrictive the language spec, the better an automatic
optimizer is  able to work with the code.  I mentioned that C
pointers were misery  for an optimizer, while FORTRAN (absent
various vendor extensions)  does not have them, making it easier
to optimize automatically (at  least in the sense of determining
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