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From: chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase)
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Subject: Re: optimization and garbage collection
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Date: 3 Jan 91 00:47:39 GMT
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goldberg@parc.xerox.com (David Goldberg) writes:
> [with "cc -O" of m3compile, I got random behavior until I turned
> off the garbage collector.]

Please note that this is very probably not a bug in the optimizer;
such behavior was predicted over 3 years ago.  This is one of the
hazards of using C as an intermediate language.  (I'm trying very hard
not to gloat too much.)

As a workaround, you might try (for Sun's compiler) "cc -O1".

David Chase
Sun Microsystems, Inc.