[Info-vax] decrementing & for loops in C

Bill Gunshannon billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
Sun Jan 11 20:45:45 EST 2009


In article <176uZD2KcidF-pn2-1GrhctkNViOE at rikki.tavi.co.uk>,
	"Bob Eager" <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:36:13 UTC, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
> wrote:
> 
>> OK, so now I understand.  I still don't trust machines over humans,
>> but I understand that some people do.   Explains how things went
>> so wrong to as give us Terminators.  ;-)  Actually glad I will never
>> work in that sector again except on my own, at home, where I will 
>> likely stick to assembler.
> 
> You still may have to worry about what the CPU does in terms of 
> re-ordering...!
> 

No, I think it is safe to assume that none of my PDP-11's are going
to do that.  :-)

bill

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