Date:	Tue, 05 Dec 1995 22:13:27 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject:	Re: Possible Bug in V2 ( -O and libm)
To:	gip AT firefox DOT ino DOT it
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization:	Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>  I think I found a problem with the optimizer of V2b3. I was playing around
>with Paranoia.c (it was with the test programs) and when I optimized it it
>reported a wrong "radix", (i.e. 4096 instead of 2). I reduced the problem
>to this bit:

Paranoia is not, repeat NOT, guaranteed to give good results when optimized.
This does not mean that the optimization is incorrect but rather that
it confuses paranoia.


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