Re: More questions about the QPL for a compiler
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 05:56:29PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 07:53:52AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> >
> > On Jul 21, 2004, at 09:26, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> >
> > >But the human who expresses a beautiful and elegant idea of loops
> > >*does* have a copyright on that, even if he writes it into a program
> > >to produce customized loops.
> >
> > Not likely. The type of loops generated by a compiler are not really
> > creative. They are, to start with, maybe 10 different sane ways of
> > doing a loop in assembly, if even that. Those different sane ways are
> > used by every assembly language programmer, every compiler writer, etc.
>
> Ironically, gcc uses none of them.
What does gcc use for generating loops then ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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