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Subject: Re: [9fans] Alef PPC code generation problem
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Date: Tue,  2 Apr 2002 13:50:13 +0100
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>>values.  I wonder at which stage of code generation the faulty
>>conversion code is applied?  It isn't to
>>	quad = e - 4.0 * f;

yes, it is, though: it's the conversion from double to int that is wrong.
it might not generate the set/used warnings--i don't know about that--but
that code in the Alef code generator is wrong to start with.
it assigns to one int (when it should be a double) then loads from another.
it's all my fault, of course, since i wrote it, but i suspect it was left that
way by accident, when i was part way through.  unlike qc (where i got it right)
i never used Alef and thus qal much for floating-point work, and i never subsequently noticed.