Another silly question

Chris Torek chris at mimsy.UUCP
Sat May 20 15:32:58 AEST 1989


In article <749 at mccc.UUCP> pjh at mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
[in response to article <607 at kl-cs.UUCP> by pc at cs.keele.ac.uk (Phil Cornes)]
>Can you explain why compilers produce different code for "a[i]" and "*(a+i)"?

I have never observed one to do so.  There is no reason for a compiler
to generate different code, as the expressions are semantically identical.
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