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From: mshute@cs.man.ac.uk (Malcolm Shute)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IEEE arithmetic (Goldberg paper)
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Date: 14 Jun 91 11:02:18 GMT
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In article <9106070109.AA02137@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> jbs@WATSON.IBM.COM writes:
>I think that if a (legal) program behaves differently when compiled with
>and without optimization that then the compiler is broken.  Perhaps you
>disagree.

      B = 5.0
      IF ( ( B .GT. 3.0 ) .OR. MYTEST(A) )
          PRINT some diagnotic messages


      LOGICAL FUNCTION MYTEST(X)
      REAL X
      MYTEST = some boolean work
      PRINT a few diagnostics on the screen
      RETURN
      END

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