Re: Sparky is losing the race Andrew ... and badly!

From: Paddy O'Brien (paddy.o'brien_at_tg.nsw.gov.au)
Date: 05/16/03 

Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 18:08:11 +1000

JF Mezei wrote:
> John Santos wrote:
>
>>Maybe you're thinking of the issue where some Alpha compilers would
>>generate "incorrect" code sequences that worked fine on EV5 and before,
>>but could fail on EV6 and later?
>>
>>The code in question was never legal, but it worked. So it was really
>>a compiler (GEM?) bug, not a hardware bug.
>
>
>
> Yeah, yeah, it is easy to blame the compiler people , especially since they
> were sold as slaves to the big bad Intel :-) ;-) :-)
>
> But yes, that is what I was thinking about.

JF,

The compiler people do make mistakes, as we all do. Have you never seen
"Internal compiler error". If you have ever stressed code, you surely
would.

Regards, Paddy

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