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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW compiler bugs (was: interface war)
Message-ID: <1990Feb14.185938.854@intercon.com>
Date: 14 Feb 90 18:59:38 GMT
References: <1990Feb14.004350.14475@oracle.com>
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In article <1990Feb14.004350.14475@oracle.com>, gstein@oracle.com (Greg Stein)
writes:
> Things like this make me wonder just how stable the compiler is.


It seems pretty good for "most" code.  In particular, all of the bugs we've
found have been code generation bugs where the condition codes are not
tracked properly.

Well, that and scribbling on the SCSI driver :-)...

--
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation

"Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view."
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