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- From: bbs.dennis@tsoft.sf-bay.org (Dennis Yelle)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Program behaviour (was Re: trapping speculative ops
- Message-ID: <k7D9PB1w165w@tsoft.sf-bay.org>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 19:19:07 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.202845.10747@bcars64a.bnr.ca>
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- schow@bqneh3.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow) writes:
-
- > Some people (including me), believe that there is only *one* level
- > of optimization. One should always ship the same binary that one
- > tested; doing otherwise expresses immense faith in the ability of
- > one's process to recompile the same source as well as the correctness
- > of ones tools - the compilers, optimizes, linkers.
- >
-
- I agree. This is why I am annoyed that most linkers put the
- debug information in the executable file. I think that the
- debug information should be put in a different file (ending with .dbg
- perhaps). Then I could test, debug, and ship EXACTLY the same binary.
-
- --
- Dennis Yelle (bbs.dennis@tsoft.sf-bay.org)
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