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From: lilian@mips.COM (Lilian Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: MIPS F77 strange message, is this bad?
Keywords: F77, compiler bug, harmless
Message-ID: <37235@mips.mips.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 90 23:15:16 GMT
References: <1017@uhnix2.uh.edu>
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Reply-To: lilian@mips.COM (Lilian Leung)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1017@uhnix2.uh.edu> davison@uhnix2.uh.edu (Daniel B. Davison) writes:
>
>uopt: Warning: harmless compiler bug detected (LDA length 0); please 
>                                                      report to MIPS
>
>"harmless compiler bug" sounds like being "a little pregnant".  Has
>anyone seen this and what should I do about it?

Yes, we already know of this.  The message is harmless and does not
affect the code at all.  It has been removed from our uopt.  What
happens is that when you have a null string, then (LDA length 0) will
be generated.  This cannot be avoided.

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