> Plan 9 C implements C by attempting to follow the programmer’s instructions Which, I might add, is a very silly thing to say. A programmer's intent and thei

> Plan 9 C implements C by attempting to follow the programmer’s instructions Which, I might add, is a very silly thing to say. A programmer's intent and their written code are two very different things. How one maps to the other is defined only by the C standard, which says nothing about emitting specific assembly instructions, but only about the ultimate effect of code on memory. The Plan 9 compiler deciding to pessimize your code because it assumes you actually meant for the code to be interpreted as portable assembly rather than a high-level description of a computation is kind of presumptuous. At that point it's just a different language with different (albeit compatible) semantics.