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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Tue,  3 Dec 2013 12:22:33 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status)
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> The patch was a bit of a scream.  I'm the first to admit that 8c needs
> a touch of TLC and that an abort() in the middle of a compiler,
> without the slightest attempt to deal with the problem is at least as
> embarrassing as the expansion of BGETLE, but the original code that
> tripped the compiler was also extremely shoddy.  And the Go

one does not attempt in a compiler.  one does correctly or one does
not do.  "attempting" is the path to madness.  it's been a while since
i've debugged something down to the asm and found the compiler had
got it wrong.  we must keep it this way!

- erik