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Article #299bug in some 68000 C-compilers
From: Mark Mendel
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 1984 15:57
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 1984 15:57
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I have discovered a bug in our C compiler (Pixel Computer Inc., Version 1.2,
3/9/84). Since this bug caused a core dump in the net.sources game PHANTASIA
and many people have been CLUTTERING that group with complaints about a core
dump, I am guessing that this bug is more wide spread. I believe our compiler
is of Unisoft derivation.
Attached is a short program to determine if you suffer from the bug.
The bug is: fcmp(), the compiler's floating point comparison routine, destroys
regiser d0. This is only a problem if a floating comparison is used as PART of
an expression: previously computed sub-expressions are trashed.
[in PHANTASIA, the routine printloc() uses such an expression as an array
subscipt, which caused a core dump].
The fix (if you can't fix the compiler): given an expressions like:
...+(x>1.0)+...
where x is a floating point variable, replace it with:
tmpint = (x>1.0); ...+ tmpint + ...
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#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
double x = 1.0, y = 1.0;
int i;
i = (x > 0) + 2*(y>0);
printf ("%d\n", i);
if (i != 3)
printf("your compiler has problems.\n");
}
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