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- From: davea@quasar.wpd.sgi.com (David B.Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Symbolic ucode generation
- Message-ID: <omiainc@sgi.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:56:20 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug16.104342.28652@bernina.ethz.ch> hoesel@igc.ethz.ch (Frans van Hoesel) writes:
- >Hi,
- >
- >As I'm writing an interpreter (yes again!) I was interrested in how ucode
- >looked like. The manpage of cc mentioned on the fifth line that it was
- >able to generate symbolic ucode. I cannot find a way to generate it. so far
- >I only got binairy ucode. Am I misreading the man page?
-
- No, you are not misreading.
-
- HOWEVER:
- We have never shipped the symbolic-ucode utilities with the IRIX
- development option and have never publicly documented Ucode (that I
- know of!). Ucode changes with almost every release: you would find it
- difficult to deal with new releases....
-
- SUMMARY: the man page is wrong and always has been.
-
- This rates a big Oops.
- [ David B. Anderson (415)390-1548 davea@sgi.com ]
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