AT&T 386 UNIX Vr3.1

[Dominick Samperi]

In article <7339 at bigtex.uucp> james at bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
|In article <176 at djs.UUCP>, samperi at djs.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) wrote:
|
|> I've used AT&T's C compiler under Sys V Rel. 2 on a 3B2/300 since before
|> Microport existed, and it has NEVER caused the system to panic when I run
|> trivial programs that do some floating point operations.
|
|Nor does the Microport compiler.  Microport has been guilty of quality
|control lapses in the past, but this problem is solely Intel's.  The
|latest step of the 80386 supposedly fixes this problem.

I should have made it clear that I was speaking about their 286 compiler, for
which they have admitted that it is a compiler bug, and they have given the
work-around: "buy another vendor's C compiler."
-- 
Dominick Samperi
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      (^ ell)