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Date: Tue,  3 Dec 2013 13:24:45 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Go and 21-bit runes (and a bit of Go status)
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> On 3 December 2013 10:08, <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
>
>> I seem to remember
>> Charles suggesting that it is difficult to do.  And as it caught a
>> rather embarrassing case of sloppy programming
>>
>
> It's not sloppy programming, but an underlying assumption about RISC
> machines in the (then) future
> having a respectable number of (truly) general-purpose registers, and the
> x86
> does not.

Oy! That's not what I was suggesting.  The sloppy programming was in
$GOROOT/src/cmd/8g/ggen.c where it triggered a compiler failure:
multiplication was used in an expression as argument to a function
invoked inside a loop.

In the compiler, the abort() invocation could be called sloppy, but
not in the same sense :-)

++L