Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!pcrat!rick
From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: WARNING: Two bugs in Dhrystone 2.0
Message-ID: <500@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 88 13:02:22 GMT
References: <4735@hall.cray.com>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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Keywords: oops

In article <4735@hall.cray.com> pmk@hall.cray.com (Peter Klausler) writes:
>Just got Dhrystone 2.0 off the net and threw it at our compilers.
>I noticed two problems in the code that readers will want to correct
>before using the benchmark:

Please, folks, do not start throwing around changes and patches to
Dhrystone to the net.  Yes, there were (are) some problems with it.
Please wait for 'official' the changes to come from Reinhold or myself.
Otherwise, there won't be just one version of the benchmark.

As a case in point, the REG change that Peter suggests would change
the apparent usage that Reinhold desired.  The change I posted
as soon as I received mail concerning this did not alter the
intended usage.

Where a change is needed, and I feel comfortable making the
change in Reinhold's absence, I will post the change.  However,
it *IS* Reinhold's program, and many of the suggestions I will
just have to pass on to him.  He is on one of those company
sponsored health trips that have become so popular lately.  He'll
be back in three weeks or so.

Also, 45 results have come in so far.  Thanks everyone.
-- 
		Rick Richardson, President, PC Research, Inc.

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