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From: preston@ariel.rice.edu (Preston Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IEEE arithmetic (Goldberg paper)
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Date: 22 Jun 91 17:07:06 GMT
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prener@prener.watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener) writes:

>Indeed, the spirit of FORTRAN is, overwhelmingly, that a program 
>whose behavior is changed by optimization is not a legal program.

A wonderfully concise, quotable statement.
So much nicer than Shearer's assertion that the optimizer must be broken.