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From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Is this a bug in 8c?
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:53:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020315125343.A32842@honk.eecs.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874rjhbx8l.fsf@becket.becket.net>; from tb+usenet@becket.net on Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 04:53:15PM +0000

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 04:53:15PM +0000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:

> The claim was that GCC trades optimization for correctness, when it
> certainly makes no such intentional trade.

Intention doesn't have much to do with it as far as I can tell.

> But 8c in fact *does* make such trades, either to save developer time,
> or just a deliberate "yes, this is wrong, but the generated code is
> faster!"

> Thomas

You're a really sore loser, you know that?


  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-15 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-15 11:52 forsyth
2002-03-15 16:53 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-15 17:53   ` William Josephson [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-15 16:41 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2002-03-15 14:43 bwc
2002-03-15 14:11 Russ Cox
2002-03-15 14:08 Russ Cox
2002-03-15 13:51 rob pike
2002-03-15 17:26 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-15 11:52 forsyth
2002-03-14 19:43 Russ Cox
2002-03-14 19:49 ` Martin Harriss
2002-03-15 10:18 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2002-03-15 10:19 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2002-03-14 19:20 bwc

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