Re: Posible bug in gcc

Erik Mouw (J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL)
Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:56:50 +0100

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:30:13PM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote:
> On 02.26 David wrote:
> > I think I heve found a bug in gcc. I have tried both egcs 1.1.2 (gcc
> > 2.91.66) and gcc 2.95.2 versions.
>
> gcc2.95.2 is sane in irix6.2, irix6.5 and solaris7sparc.
>
> The optimizer is not in the common front-end ?

Yes and no. There is some common code in the optimiser, but each target
has its own optimisation tricks for which the code is not shared with
other targets.

Erik

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