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Re: Compiler Bug

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From: Dirk Grunwald
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 1990 16:29
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>>>>> On 30 Jul 90 14:20:37 GMT, hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Hudgens) said:
JH> How about this one. 
JH> Under Ultrix 4.0, we get this behavior:

JH> $ cat bug.c
JH> #include<stdio.h>

JH> main()
JH> {
JH>     int d;
JH>     double f;
JH>     long l;
JH>     int i;
JH>     i = 4;
JH>     f = 244.0;
JH>     l = 2000;
JH>     d = l * i/f;
JH>     printf("%d * %d / %f = %d\n",
JH>             l, i, f, d);
JH> }
--

this is program 'testb' in the following. Program 'testa' is the
previous one involving 'malloc'.

Using 'gcc' as done by meissner@osf.org, the following results. You
can pick up the tar file for building this (heavily modified) version
of 'gcc' from foobar.colorado.edu:pub/Gnu-For-Pmax. Be warned that
that 'gcc' -O3 and -O2 optimization produces code about 10-20% slower
than Mips 'cc' (1.31). I do not know how it compares to the mips 2.x
suite.

[foobar-81] gcc -o testa testa.c
[foobar-82] ./testa
-18
-18
[foobar-83] gcc -O -o testa testa.c
[foobar-84] ./testa
-18
-18
[foobar-85] gcc -o testa -O2 testa.c
[foobar-86] ./testa
-18
-18
[foobar-87] gcc -o testb testb.c
[foobar-88] ./testb
2000 * 4 / 244.000000 = 32
[foobar-89] gcc -o testb -O testb.c
[foobar-90] ./testb
2000 * 4 / 244.000000 = 32
[foobar-91] gcc -o testb -O2 testb.c
[foobar-92] ./testb
2000 * 4 / 244.000000 = 32
[foobar-93] 
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From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
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Subject: Re: Compiler Bug
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