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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Aggressive optimization
Message-ID: <2303:Nov607:26:0890@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 07:26:08 GMT
References: <1849@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <PCG.90Nov1171210@odin.cs.aber.ac.uk> <1932@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
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In article <1932@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase) writes:
> I will suggest that you have no evidence, only anecdotes,
> for the alleged pervasive bugginess of optimizing compilers.

He says this while another comp.lang.c poster complains about an
optimizer bug, while I find that a new optimizer crashes on an empty
loop, and while someone else sees an optimizing Fortran compiler that
still produces incorrect code for overly complex control structures.

---Dan