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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 08:32:07 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ian D Romanick <idr AT cs DOT pdx DOT edu>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: strength reuce fix?
In-Reply-To: <199702051741.JAA02172@xavier.cs.pdx.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970206083018.4379B-100000@is>
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On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Ian D Romanick wrote:

> > We *did* get that new version of DJGPP.  V2.01 comes with gcc 2.7.2.1 
> > which fixed that bug.
> 
> Is it really a fix?  I was under the impression that the area of faulty
> code was just disabled.  That is, the strength reduction code was just
> taken out.  Is this true?

Not entirely.  As far as I understand they disabled some (but not all) of 
the optimizations that are collectively called ``strength reduction''.

> Heh...any ideas when 2.8.0 will be available? :)

Now why in the world would you think that I should know?

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