Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!mmdf From: rminnich%super.org@cunyvm.cuny.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: lattice/MANX bug when compiling large programs Message-ID: <4506@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 4 Oct 88 06:38:06 GMT Sender: usenet@udel.EDU Lines: 24 Received: from CUNYVM by CUNYVM.BITNET (Mailer X2.00) with BSMTP id 7549; Tue, 04 Oct 88 02:32:03 EDT Received: from UDEL.EDU by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.1) with TCP; Tue, 04 Oct 88 02:31:58 EDT Received: from Louie.UDEL.EDU by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa15008; 3 Oct 88 20:49 EDT Received: from USENET by Louie.UDEL.EDU id aa14760; 3 Oct 88 20:38 EDT From: Ronald G Minnich Subject: Re: lattice/MANX bug when compiling large programs Message-ID: <808@super.ORG> Date: 3 Oct 88 15:52:26 GMT Organization: Supercomputing Research Center, Lanham, MD To: amiga-relay@UDEL.EDU Sender: amiga-relay-request@UDEL.EDU In article <12521@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes: >p. C-9: "the default is to use 32-bit absolute addressing, which allows >data hunks of virtually unlimited size..." Also the fact that both -b and -r >allow a numweric operand is not documented anywhere. Oh yeah, neat isn't it. My theory is that they wanted to do well on the benchmarks and so changed the sense of the flags at the last minute. Or something. Sure ticked me off when i found this one. YOu have to look at man pages for lc1 and lc2 to know what is really happening. ron