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From: "John_D._Sybalsky.AISNorth"@XEROX.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
Subject: Re: byte-compiler bug
Message-ID: <881117-115218-1944@Xerox>
Date: 17 Nov 88 19:35:15 GMT
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The compiler bug related to IDATE and large negative constants in code is
fixed in Medley 1.0.  Um, FYI, TCOMPL -is- the byte compiler.  I tried the
example given below with both the byte compiler and the common-lisp
compiler, and both worked fine (in Medley, which US customers should have
received by now).

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The byte-compiler generates:
  34:        157  45   4 110  GCONST    -2115947648
  40:         20              RETURN
  41:          0              -X-
TCOMPL generates:
  34:        157  75 151 366  GCONST    2179019648
  40:         20              RETURN
  41:          0              -X-
Which seems more correct.

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