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Re: Forward references

From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Forward references
Date	2016-10-02 19:56 -0400
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On 10/2/2016 1:11 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Oct 2016 15:45:19 +0000, Stefan Ram wrote:
>
>> An old C compiler from the 70s is a one-pass compiler IIRC,
>>   so it does not do "forward references".
>>
> Whose C was that?
>
> Not K&R for sure: they've always had separate preprocessor, C->Assembler
> translation, assembler and linker phases. Thats a given, since from the
> outset they were designed to use the native assembler and linker
> of the target machine, since that's an easy way to make porting easier.

The one vs multi pass is only about what happens in 'cc1' when
compiling '.i' to '.s'.

Arne

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Re: Forward references Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-10-02 17:11 +0000
  Re: Forward references Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-10-02 17:44 -0400
    Re: Forward references Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-10-02 22:37 +0000
      Re: Forward references Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-10-02 22:01 -0400
    Re: Forward references Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-10-02 19:54 -0400
  Re: Forward references Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-10-02 19:56 -0400

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