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Subject: Re: I HATE OPTIMISING COMPILERS
To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.org (Gary Palmer)
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 13:08:29 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <13116.833311188@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at May 28, 96 08:19:48 pm
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Gary Palmer writes:
>
> Well, I certainly do at the minute.
>
> Take the following innocuous piece of code:
>
>     if (pdu->version == SNMP_DEFAULT_VERSION)
> 	pdu->version = session->version;
>
>     if (pdu->version == SNMP_DEFAULT_VERSION){
> 	fprintf(stderr, "No version specified\n");
> 	snmp_errno = SNMPERR_BAD_ADDRESS;
> 	return 0;
>}
>
> (etc). 

Well, it looks like what you hate is a broken compiler.  That's not
optimizing, that's just broken.

How come you didn't use gdb to follow up the problem?

Greg