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From: rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer)
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Subject: Re: Apollo CC 5.7 Optimizer bummer
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Date: 10 May 91 20:49:00 GMT
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In article <1142@eba.eb.ele.tue.nl> volf@ebs.eb.ele.tue.nl (frank volf) writes:
>Well in that case, here is a pascal compiler optimizer problem. The program is very small 
>(Yes, I know it is not a useful program!) and it fails in a very simple way: the pascal
>compiler keeps optimizing for ever and never returns my shell prompt!.

(I hope no one takes it the wrong way when I say "thanks for the laugh". :-)
Pretty silly behaviour, yes.  Okay, it's been fixed.  (You needn't bother to
file an APR for *this* one, thanks. :-)

--
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