Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcrware!jejones
From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: Buggy Microware 6809 C Compiler
Keywords: c bugs microware compiler coco 6809 unix
Message-ID: <2125@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jul 90 16:36:36 GMT
References: <3583@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <1990Jul9.180504.26844@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
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In article <1990Jul9.180504.26844@agate.berkeley.edu> koonce@brahms.berkeley.edu.UUCP (tim koonce) writes:
>- Eddie Kuns ran across a problem where for statements with a null
>  increment statement were handled incorrectly.  Don't remember the
>  details.

Here are the details: the 6809 compiler will generate a goto for
continue statements in for loops with null "increment" parts
that will bypass the test part, and thus the compiled program
may have an unfortunate tendency to never escape the loop.

	James Jones