Re: DON'T USE FIX FOR: optimization bug

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From: Chip Salzenberg
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 13:11

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In an earlier message to bug-gcc, I wrote:
>The below patch makes GCC generate and retain the correct machine
>modes for constants.

To quote Richard Kenner: "Your fix is nonsense."
To quote RMS: "A CONST_INT without VOIDmode?!  You've got to be kidding!"

So I guess you shouldn't use my patch.  Sorry about that.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT  <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
      "Informix 4GL is not a 4G, and it's barely an L."  -- John Tombs

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Subject: Re: DON'T USE FIX FOR: optimization bug
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