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| Re: Debug optimized code sh006d3592@blueyonder.co.uk (Stephen Horne) (2008-09-22) |
| Re: Debug optimized code gneuner2@comcast.net (George Neuner) (2008-09-23) |
| Was: Debug optimized code; Now: How many compiler bugs have you seen? cfc@shell01.TheWorld.com (Chris F Clark) (2008-09-24) |
| Re: Debug optimized code; Now: How many compiler bugs have you seen? armelasselin@hotmail.com (Armel) (2008-09-24) |
| Re: Debug optimized code; Now: How many compiler bugs have you seen? damian.thomas@unisys.com (Damian Thomas) (2008-09-25) |
| Re: Debug optimized code; Now: How many compiler bugs have you seen? jlforrest@berkeley.edu (Jon Forrest) (2008-09-25) |
| Re: Debug optimized code; Now: How many compiler bugs have you seen? marcov@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) (2008-09-26) |
| From: | Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:32:41 +0000 (UTC) |
| Organization: | Stack Usenet News Service |
| References: | 08-09-076 08-09-105 08-09-110 08-09-115 08-09-119 08-09-128 |
| Keywords: | errors |
| Posted-Date: | 26 Sep 2008 07:48:28 EDT |
On 2008-09-25, Damian Thomas <damian.thomas@unisys.com> wrote:
> I support many compilers right now. Many programmers come to me
> claiming there must be some bug in the compiler that is preventing
> their program from working. Many times it's the user program that was
> incorrect. In a few rare cases, the hardware is incorrect.
Hehe, and OS. I can remember being flabbergasted why the same floating
point code wouldn't run on NetBSD on ppc603 while it ran on Linux on
the same CPU.
Turned out Linux had a handler for unaligned access (something the 603
FPU can't handle in some cases), and NetBSD not.
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