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From: jrb@petro.UUCP (Jon Boede)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.os.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: -O strangeness (Was: Re: Venix Users?)
Message-ID: <483@petro.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 87 21:21:34 GMT
References: <2439@sputnik.COM> <253@4gl.UUCP>
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Summary: why is -O broke on some UNIXs??

In article <253@4gl.UUCP> honzo@4gl.UUCP (Honzo Svasek) writes:
>in article <2439@sputnik.COM>, dbb@tc.fluke.COM (Dave Bartley) says:
>> What about Venix?
>1. it IS System V UNIX.
>   A few times I had to remove the -O options when compiling, but same
>   counts for 3B2 UNIX.

Why is that??  I've had this same problem when compiling stuff on a 3b1.  Like,
what exactly is it about the optimizer that's broke (I'm assuming that it's the
same problem).  The message I got on the 3b1 was [loop?] "branch label too far"
-- which I thought was pretty weird but I wrote it off to the 3b1's 68010 which
has loop instructions at the uP level.

Amused,
Jon
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