From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] remember when C compiler used to produce working code? i don't! From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-prpgvekksmecdapjysxdwwrtpq" Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:42:02 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c9a27a26-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-prpgvekksmecdapjysxdwwrtpq Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit absolutely, to the extent that i can't remember suffering one myself, over frighteningly many years now and five or six architectures. even with the newish AVR compiler, i always suspect my own code, and usually: that's the right answer. --upas-prpgvekksmecdapjysxdwwrtpq Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by lavoro; Sat Jan 31 19:24:14 GMT 2004 Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id A68C519D45; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 14:24:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.4.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 4C80319C07; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 14:24:13 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id A883A19C65; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 14:23:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from mailer01.geekmail.cc (dictum-ext.geekmail.cc [204.239.179.245]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id BBEB819BB4 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 14:23:33 -0500 (EST) X-Envelope-To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Received: from mightycheese.com (adsl-67-122-72-231.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net [67.122.72.231]) (authenticated bits=0) by mailer01.geekmail.cc (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0VJNT0w011267 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 11:23:29 -0800 Subject: Re: [9fans] remember when C compiler used to produce working code? i don't! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) From: Rob Pike To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20040131175948.3153.qmail@g.galapagos.bx.psu.edu> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 'clamd / ClamAV version 0.65', clamav-milter version '0.60p' Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 11:23:27 -0800 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,PLING_QUERY,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, USER_AGENT_APPLEMAIL version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) >> comments about the "rare" philosophy are also welcome. > > Better to halt with an error than silently generate bad code. true, but credit should also be given to the overall quality of the compiler. bug reports have been rare. -rob --upas-prpgvekksmecdapjysxdwwrtpq--