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From: krk@cs.purdue.EDU (Kevin Kuehl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: C compiler bug
Message-ID: <11073@medusa.cs.purdue.edu>
Date: 15 Jul 90 03:16:38 GMT
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In article <40159@mips.mips.COM> mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) writes:
>  Sequent  S81  DYNIX V3.0.17.9      SGI   Iris 4D/120GTX   Irix 3.2
>                                     Sun   SPARCstation 1   SunOs 4.0.3c
>                                     MIPS  RC3240           RISC/os 4.50
>                                     Apollo DN4000          BSD 4.2 DOMAIN-IX

I would go with the non-Sequent machines here also.  Our Symmetries
sometimes generate really strange code.  We have traced apparent bugs
in software to flags given the C compiler.  Compile the software with
one flag and it dumps core, compile it with another and the program
runs just fine.

Kevin
krk@cs.purdue.edu
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