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
