The lost art (Was: The VAX is running

[Richard]

In article <FF6AB92D97A23A409701CDBF66F03FCD2E96AD17 at 505fuji>,
    Ian King <IanK at vulcan.com>  writes:

> > > And too few people who take the trouble to learn the assembly bother
> > > to learn the machine representation of the instructions--or the
> > > architecture of the implementation. Even fewer learn how to time
> > > instruction execution--perhaps it's no longer relevant.
> > 
> > All of this is now the job of the compiler.
> > 
> > It ain't 1980 anymore.
> > 
> 
> You've never found a compiler bug?  :-)  

To be honest, no.

Every time I *thought* it was a compiler bug, it was mine.  Then
again, I don't work in anything remotely like embedded computing where
the quality of the compiler can vary considerably I'm told.  I often
hear from game programmers that game console C++ compilers are pretty
shitty.  Apparently the console vendors insist on making their own
compilers or licensing a shitty one instead of making a decent back
end for gcc or something reasonably like that.
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