On 29 Jun 2000, at 6:42, Clyde Smith-Stubbs wrote:

> That's exactly what the last suggestion in the FAQ achieves, at
> the expense of a little complexity in setting up (but that is
> provided for you in the FAQ, so all you have to do is copy it).
> And the beauty of it is that it is 100% portable ANSI code, you
> can use it on *any* ANSI compiler. That's about as close
> to a free lunch as you're going to get.

The purpose of a compiler is to simplify code, not to increase the
complexity. When one supplies workarounds for a compiler that
include dozens of lines of code to do what could/should be done
with a line or two, well, thats pretty lame, Bubba. If you gave a
person 25 lines of C code to insert a NOP into the code, I don't
think they would be that happy with it, but so be it.