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From: kai@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Kuck And Associates)
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Subject: Re: C compiler bug
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Date: 17 Jul 90 23:39:41 GMT
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mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) writes:

>The "wrong answer" machines contain 4 different CPUs (R2000, Cy7C601,
>R3000, 68020) and employ 3 different C compilers.

It appears the "wrong answer" machines are all Big Endian (bytes are stored in
memory in the order 4321, as opposed to the S81's i386 processors, which are
Little Endian).  Perhaps the code isn't quite portable.

Patrick Wolfe   (pat@kai.com, kailand!pat)
System Programmer/Operations Manager, Kuck & Associates
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