What should be added to C

Frank Adams franka at mmintl.UUCP
Fri May 30 01:25:16 AEST 1986


In article <5521 at alice.uUCp> ark at alice.UUCP writes:
>	2. Can you give me a simple code generation algorithm
>	   for multiple assignments that gets things like
>
>		i, a[i] = j, a[j];
>
>	   correct and never uses extra temporaries?  I have this
>	   nagging feeling that even without subscripted variables,
>	   the problem is NP-complete.

I wouldn't be surprised.  But this is not intolerable; most cases are quite
small, and even moderately large ones are very rare.

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
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