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From: jpk@Ingres.COM (Jon Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: IEEE arithmetic (Goldberg paper)
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.211407.17389@ingres.Ingres.COM>
Date: 24 Jun 91 21:14:06 GMT
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Reply-To: jpk@Ingres.COM (Jon Krueger)
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jbs@WATSON.IBM.COM (James B. Shearer) writes:
> Do you disagree that it is undesirable for optimization to affect
> a program's behavior?

Yes.

It is a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere, for
compilers to expose broken programs.

Correct programs can be written in available languages.
The meaning of such programs does not depend on whether
compilers apply permissible optimizations.

-- Jon

Jon Krueger, jpk@ingres.com