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   Marco van de Voort to Damian Thomas   
   Re: Debug optimized code; Now: How many    
   26 Sep 08 08:32:41   
   
   From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2008-09-25, Damian Thomas  wrote:   
   > I support many compilers right now.  Many programmers come to me   
   > claiming there must be some bug in the compiler that is preventing   
   > their program from working.  Many times it's the user program that was   
   > incorrect.  In a few rare cases, the hardware is incorrect.   
      
   Hehe, and OS. I can remember being flabbergasted why the same floating   
   point code wouldn't run on NetBSD on ppc603 while it ran on Linux on   
   the same CPU.   
      
   Turned out Linux had a handler for unaligned access (something the 603   
   FPU can't handle in some cases), and NetBSD not.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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