Robert Prins wrote: >Can anyone skilled in the art tell me why a compiler that probably dates back >to the late 1970'ies or early 1980'ies generates the following short and sweet >code for a PL/I "BY NAME" assignment, while the not completely new (but still >fairly recent) version of Enterprise PL/I (V3R9) generates the very, very, >very long-winded code below it?
I'm not skilled in this art, but is your Enterprise PL/I (v3r9) also using Language Environment or not? >Then again, I always thought that the fastest instructions are those ones that >are never executed... Those instructions don't need to be optimized... :-) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN