'386 XENIX "cc -Ox" optimization bug

Wm E. Davidsen Jr davidsen at sixhub.UUCP
Mon Dec 10 02:59:43 AEST 1990


In article <40991 at ut-emx.uucp> jon at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jon Boede) writes:

| It's a little bothersome to turn on "max. optimization" and have your code stop
| working! ;-)

  My manual calls this "unsafe optimization" or some such. Besides, you
get the wrong answer, but much faster!  ;-)
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