From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <016601c3e834$af9273e0$8201a8c0@cc77109e> From: "Bruce Ellis" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: Subject: Re: [9fans] remember when C compiler used to produce working code? i don't! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 06:59:01 +1100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c9928a62-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 sorry if it seemed i was suggesting *ever* generating wrong code, just that the code generated for really rare cases can be way suboptimal. in any case it's fixed now - it turns out that most of the code was already in 8c/cgen.c - it just wasn't being triggered because of the incorrect rewrite. 5c/cgen.c needed just a few lines. brucee. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Pike" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 6:23 AM Subject: Re: [9fans] remember when C compiler used to produce working code? i don't! > >> comments about the "rare" philosophy are also welcome. > > > > Better to halt with an error than silently generate bad code. > > true, but credit should also be given to the overall quality of the > compiler. > bug reports have been rare. > > -rob