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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:
[...]
>        I dislike structure assignment in C because it breaks that rule that
> every C line must correspond to a trivial number of cycles.
[...]

Fortunately, there is no such rule.  On some systems, floating-point
operations translate to function calls.  Would you rather write the
calls yourself?

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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