Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 13:07:47 12/19/02
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On December 19, 2002 at 13:17:47, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On December 19, 2002 at 13:11:12, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>Not my experience. It compiles all of Crafty just fine, and the profile-based >>optimizations seem to work well also. > >Crafty is hardly a refernce. You are in SPEC. Everybody who writes >a compiler, especially if they have hardware interests, is going to >make damn sure you get compiled correctly. But that doesn't help >the rest of us. > >>As I said, it If you do unsafe aliasing and such, it might >>have a problem, but nobody here writes that kind of code... > >I don't. > >An internal compiler error is a sure bug anyway, no matter >what code it is compiling. Silly user. The crashes must be your fault! That's a feature, not a bug! ;) With feedback like that for the Intel C compiler, perhaps there would really be a market for an optimizer with similar performance that actually worked. I haven't used Intel C much, but what I did compile never gave me issues. -Matt
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