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Article #12232Re: IEEE arithmetic (Goldberg paper)
From: Preston Briggs
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1991 17:07
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1991 17:07
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prener@prener.watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener) writes: >Indeed, the spirit of FORTRAN is, overwhelmingly, that a program >whose behavior is changed by optimization is not a legal program. A wonderfully concise, quotable statement. So much nicer than Shearer's assertion that the optimizer must be broken.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!sdd.hp.com!mips!atha!aunro!alberta!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!rice!ariel.rice.edu!preston From: preston@ariel.rice.edu (Preston Briggs) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: IEEE arithmetic (Goldberg paper) Message-ID: <1991Jun22.170706.28079@rice.edu> Date: 22 Jun 91 17:07:06 GMT Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Organization: Rice University, Houston Lines: 7