From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] remember when C compiler used to produce working code? i don't!
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 03:15:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <046c01c3e7a0$269ad210$67844051@SOMA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <029701c3e79d$8af35370$8201a8c0@cc77109e>
> the reasoning (which may not be right) is that the port code
> in cc cannot, in general, rewrite the tree; consider:
>
> *lp++ *= ratio;
yeah, it could have arbitrarily nasty side effects to just
hack on in there and fix just this problem for just 8c.
i'd reckon you'd need to have good knowledge of the
compiler and the various architectures. no point
turning broken code into _very_ broken code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-31 2:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-30 22:05 andrey mirtchovski
2004-01-30 22:29 ` David Presotto
2004-01-30 22:40 ` David Presotto
2004-01-31 0:57 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-01-31 1:34 ` boyd, rounin
2004-01-31 1:51 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-01-31 2:15 ` boyd, rounin [this message]
2004-01-31 3:13 ` David Presotto
2004-01-31 7:40 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-01-31 9:03 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-01-31 10:08 ` David Tolpin
2004-01-31 14:19 ` boyd, rounin
2004-01-31 14:57 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-01-31 17:59 ` Scott Schwartz
2004-01-31 19:23 ` Rob Pike
2004-01-31 19:59 ` Bruce Ellis
2004-01-31 20:42 ` Charles Forsyth
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