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Re: c++ and loop unrolling


  In message <199908291732.SAA03299@malone.maths.soton.ac.uk>you write:
  > 
  > 
  > For Gcc-2.95.1 on the info pages it states that C++ and loop-unrolling
  > may have bugs in it
  > On the gcc web page there is no mention of thic C++ and loop unrolling
  > bug
  > 
  > So has it been fixed ?
Some bugs have been fixed.  Others have not.

  > If not is it a incorrect code bug (BAD) or a compile time bug (so if my
  > program compiles then it is OK) ?
Both. :-)  The original bug which lead to that note was a compile time problem,
but there are some known bugs with unrolling and exception handling which can
cause the compiler to generate incorrect code.

jeff


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