Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 22:13:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Aaron Ucko 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. -- Aaron Ucko (ucko AT vax1 DOT rockhurst DOT edu; finger for PGP public key) | httyp! "That's right," he said. "We're philosophers. We think, therefore we am." -- Terry Pratchett, _Small Gods_ | Geek Code 3.1 [for explanation, finger hayden AT mankato DOT msus DOT edu]: GCS/M/S/C d- s: a17 C++(+++)>++++ UL++>++++ P++ L++>+++++ E- W(-) N++(+) o+ K- w--- O M@ V-(--) PS++(+++) PE- Y(+) PGP(+) t(+) !5 X-- R(-) tv-@ b++(+++) DI+ !D-- G++(+++) e->+++++(*) h!>+ r-(--)>+++ y?