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- From: fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Juergen "Rally" Fischer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: PPC compilers
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 14:17:50 GMT
- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
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- Arno Eigenwillig (arno@yaps.rhein.de) wrote:
- : In article <4c9ie3$h3i@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>,
- : Juergen "Rally" Fischer writes:
-
- : > as it is a rather philosophic question if (*a++||*a++) is C or not,
-
- : *a++||*a++ is C beyond any doubt. The discussion was about *a++|*a++,
- : though. I see you still have not done your homework. There is an
- : important difference between these two.
-
- it is a rather philosophic question if "fill in expression that gnu
- compiles, but is not valid ANSI C" is C.
-
- satisfied now ?
-
- my knowledge of C is enough to do this claim, so your arrogant
- "do homework" crap is obsolete.
-
- : > According to your definition, a program written in C, but containing a
- : > bug, is suddenly not a C program. very funny, and as I said, philosophic.
-
- : There are different kinds of bugs.
-
- :D
-
- According to your definition, a program written in C, but containing a
- "fill in expression that gnu-compiles, but is no valid ANSI C"
- is suddenly not a C program. very funny, and as I said, philosophic.
-
- satisfied now ?
-
- BTW already seen "Und taeglich gruesst das Murmeltier" ? :)
-
- : A program has a bug if it performs a well-defined operation that is
- [...]
- : have in mind.
- yes, a bug :)
-
- : Then a program has a bug if it contains code that is not explained by
- : the language definition. This is probably new to you because in assem-
- You mean syntax error ?
-
- : bler there is no equivalent to it - if the assembler translates the
- compiler bug ?
-
- : code, the CPU will execute it and each opcode will yield a well-defi-
- : ned result - possibly an "unknown instruction" trap, but well-defined.
-
- BTW So you agree -(a0),-(a0) is well defined ? ;)
-
- : The situation is similar to this:
-
- : "Juergen likes C."
- : "Juergen green vacuums foremost done foo."
- : Both sentences are not true - the first one because it simply is
- : false, the second one because it does not mean anything at all. It is
-
- The first one is true, beeing RKMer you should know you are not to assume ;)
-
- : not an English sentence: It consists of English words, but it just is
- : not a string the English language defines to encode anything.
- But it's enough information to tease me, what was inteded by you.
-
- I couldn't solve the riddle about the 2nd kind of bug you got in mind.
-
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