Pascal --> C question

[Rahul Dhesi]

In article <12340 at brl-adm.ARPA> TLIMONCE%DREW.BITNET at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes:
>Actually, the only version of Pascal that I will use is VaxPascal under
>VMS (what's that?) because it has some [excellent] optimizations....
...
>Why can't popular C compilers do that?

Another interesting optimization done by a VMS compiler, that competing
vendors never thought of doing, is this.  If your C program contains

     fflush(stdout);

the VMS C compiler will optimize this into:

     if (F$MODE == INTERACTIVE)       /* if interactive run */
        fflush(stdout);
     else
        printf("\n");                 /* if batch run */
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