Re: inlining + optimization = nuisance bugs

Dennis Ritchie <dmr@bell-labs.com>
29 Sep 1998 21:46:34 -0400

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From: Dennis Ritchie <dmr@bell-labs.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 29 Sep 1998 21:46:34 -0400
Organization: Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
References: 98-09-149 98-09-163
Keywords: history, arithmetic

The "sandpile" quote is indeed in Kernighan and Plauger's
Elements of Programming Style (p 92 of the first edition),
where it is attributed to "a wise programmer." I'm thinking
Vic Vyssotsky or Dick Hamming, both capable of it and both
available during the writing.
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