[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[John Reagan]

"John Wallace" <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message 
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On Nov 30, 7:24 pm, "John Reagan" <johnrrea... at earthlink.net> wrote:
> "John Wallace" <johnwalla... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
>

>Can I just pick up on one bit this time:
>"alignment faults comes from the user lying to the compiler"

>That's obviously true from your point of view as a compiler person,
>but for the vast majority of folk out there, it would be more accurate
>to say:
>"alignment faults comes from the >>developer<< lying to the compiler"

Fine with me.  I just wanted to point out that it isn't a lack of compiler 
optimization that allows alignment faults to occur (again, compiler BUGS may 
in fact result in alignment faults - I've fixed several over the years).

John