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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: compiler bug
Message-ID: <23017@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 10 Mar 90 06:46:01 GMT
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In article <36884@mips.mips.COM> rogerk@servitude.mips.com
(Roger B.A. Klorese) writes for fy@sunvalleymall.UUCP (Frank Yellin):
>... the Second Edition of "C: A Reference Manual" by Harbison and Steele

[recommends against `interleaving' expression evaluation the way the MIPS
compiler did for `result = a[--i] + a[--i]'], then:

>I don't know whether Harbison and Steele is considered authoritative, but
>they certainly would consider the MIPS implementation to be incorrect.

The new authority is the ANSI standard (X3.159); it allows the MIPS
implementation.
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