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From: izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: cc compiler problems
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Date: 12 Apr 91 18:58:39 GMT
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In article <1991Apr9.051123.8923@nntp-server.caltech.edu> 
madler@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:
>
>I had someone at NeXT try that program on a 68040 running version 2.1 of
>the operating system (with -O), and it did not crash the machine.  I will
>verify this when I get my 2.1 upgrade.  The reason 2.1 might be expected

I veryfied that myself just now.

The following program, compiled with
"cc -O -o strange strange.c" does not crash 040 cube running 2.1.
So, upgrade to 2.1.  It will fix other things even if
you have monochrome station or cube.

---- From a previous posting by:

chouw@galaxy.cps.msu.edu (Wen Hwa Chou)

>"cc -o starnge strange.c" everything is OK.  But when I tried it as
>"cc -O -o strange strange.c"  than the Slab is gone - I mean totally gone.
>I would not even respond to the cmd-cmd-~ sequence.  The only way to recover
>it is by UNPLUG/PLUG!!!

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main()
{
	double x,y;
	int i;
	x=2;
	y=2;

	for (i=0; i< 5000000; i++ ) x /= y;
	printf("%g\n",x);
	}
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