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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] remember when C compiler used to produce working code? i don't!
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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 03:15:50 +0100
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> 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.