On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 20:59:52 +0000, DASDBILL2 wrote:

>PITA, yes, but not life-threateningly so.  Consider the following: 
>
>X = 0 
>IF X=1 THEN 
>   DC  C'THIS IS A CONSTANT THAT IS NOW "REACHABLE" SO THE COMPILER WILL NOT 
>"DELETE" IT IN ORDER TO "OPTIMIZE" THE LOAD MODULE." 
>ENDIF 
>  
>or whatever the equivalent syntax is for FORTRAN or other language which 
>cannot tolerate an unreachable comment. 
>  
How smart is your optimizer?  How smart will it be in the next release?
I see a (what I mentioned earlier) a battle of wits aborning here.

-- gil

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