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From: mac3n@babbage.acc.virginia.edu (Alex Colvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: emitted code
Summary: you're naive
Message-ID: <361@babbage.acc.virginia.edu>
Date: 1 Oct 88 16:01:05 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia
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> Call me naive, but I had never had a compiler I was
> using generate just plain wrong code.

OK, you're naive.

I often read the object code.  When it's "wrong", it's usually because I
made some obscure semantic error.  Mismatched brackets, "if (a=b)", etc.

Rarely, it's the compiler.  For example, an unnamed compiler missed

	(io ? input : output)  (sap,rsap,info);

in big model.  Since then I try not to be too clever.

						-- mac the na"if