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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Casting bug in C compiler 68K Rev 6.7(316)
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Date: 17 Jul 90 14:50:00 GMT
References: <1990Jul17.044917.20375@arp.anu.oz.au>
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In article <1990Jul17.044917.20375@arp.anu.oz.au> peterf@arp.anu.oz.au (Peter Fletcher) writes:
>There's a frustrating little bug in the Apollo 'c' compiler
>which has been there since at least before Rev 6.6.  The
>following program should always output '65535', but if
>compiled with no optimization, it gets the answer wrong.

This has been fixed in CR1.0 (cc 6.8).

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