"Numerical Recipes in C" is nonportable code

[Chris Torek]

-In article <640 at drilex.UUCP> dricej at drilex.UUCP (Craig Jackson) writes:
->* Note that putting the protection in the compiler was also an idea
->of Per Brinch-Hansen's in the 1970s, with Concurrent Pascal.  Burroughs
->had been doing it for many years, even then.

In article <1429 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
-What's to stop you from doing the following:
-
-	Generate code in an array.
-	Jump to the beginning of the array. *

Whenever the compiler is forced to generate `iffy' code, it also generates
tests such as tags to make sure that you do not do something like this.
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