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From: jaym@nuchat.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 386 unix (was Re: 386 demand paged virtual memory)
Message-ID: <342@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 14:34:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: nuchat.342
Posted: Tue Sep 29 14:34:26 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 1-Oct-87 05:48:48 EDT
References: <158@splut.UUCP><380@micropen>
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Summary: I never said I was a Unix guru...

In article <380@micropen>, dave@micropen (David F. Carlson) writes:
>In article <158@splut.UUCP>, jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard) writes:
>>By general consensus, it seems Microport's compiler isn't all that swift
>>(seems to be a bit buggy), but I haven't seen performance numbers on it, and
>>I thought Dhrystone was fairly compiler-independent. (showing my ignorance
>>again... :-) Has anyone run it under Microport? How fast was it?
>>
>>Never ascribe to malice that which can 
>>be adequately explained by stupidity.  <-- favorite quote...
>
>I *will* ascribe this to stupidity.
>
>The 80286 compiler for Microport is PCC-based.  Thus, except for the code 
>generator and the optimizer phase, it is as bug free as any compiler with 
>ten years of track history can be.  

I got the idea that the Microport compiler was somewhat buggy from the long
list of compiler bugs in the official Microport bug list. Next time one
goes floating through comp.unix.xenix (or the Microport group, if it ever
gets created), check it out.

>Has anyone *ever* had a demonstrable, verifiable compiler bug
>with the Microport PCC-based compiler?

From the looks of it, and the messages floating through this group in the past
week, it appears that lots of folks have. I have even run across a couple
myself (most notably while trying to compile sc [spreadsheet calculator] off
of the net; it complained until I chopped the sheet size by 3/4 because
of the well-known array of pointers size bug).

Most of them are nits, but, still, some of them are real nuisances. I was going
from a wide variety of reported cc problems, and, whether or not it's
PCC-based, it's still buggy.

-- 
Jay Maynard, K5ZC (@WB5BBW)...>splut!< | temporarily at uunet!nuchat!jaym
Never ascribe to malice that which can | while splut is down (@#*(&$% ST4051!!)
adequately be explained by stupidity.  | GEnie: JAYMAYNARD  CI$: 71036,1603
The opinions herein are shared by neither of my cats, much less anyone else.