[TUHS] tool (that wnj wrote?) that reduced the data segment size?

Charles Anthony charles.unix.pro at gmail.com
Sun Nov 29 09:38:06 AEST 2015


On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Norman Wilson <norman at oclsc.org> wrote:

>
> I didn't (and still don't) like Joy's heavy-handed hack, but I
> see his point, and think it's just fine for the language rules
> to allow the compiler to do it hacklessly.
>
>
IIRC, in "The Design of an Optimizing Compiler", it says something like:

"The Optimizing Compiler Writer's Motto: It is no sin to make a wrong
program worse."

-- Charles
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