Author: Lance Perkins
Date: 13:37:13 08/23/04
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On August 23, 2004 at 14:56:56, Gerd Isenberg wrote:
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>No. Some posted C-Code snippets may produce same assembly.
Huh? The entire computer science community is laughing here. Prove then that you
can write a different C code that will produce this same assembly. Then tell
that to Bob since he teaches these things in school.
I've written compiler backends, btw. Its an exact science.
>
>Ok, that looks odd.
>
>OTOH it sounds logical to me that EvaluateMate returns VALUE_MATE but for some
>reason this executable was compiled with other #define switches for instance.
>Wasn't such tautological conditions a former trick to align code and to have
>influence on branch predictions inside this code cache line?
Are you just throwing out random words here? You add a check to align code?
Also, there is nothing to predict here as far as branching is concerned. There
should be no branching at all. The correct C code should be:
int ms=EvaluateMate(tree);
// if (ms == 99999) break; /* removed */
score+=ms;
>
>Such statements might be possible in a lot of other chess programs.
>What secret algorithm is inside the if-body?
>
>if ((TotalBlackPieces==0) && (TotalWhitePieces==6) &&
> (!WhitePawns) && (!BlackPawns) && WhiteBishops && WhiteKnights) {
>
I've only commented on a portion of the code. Can't you figure out the rest by
yourself?
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