On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Offtopic, but I'm always wondering, how this can happen.
> What changed in the last 10 years? The C++ specification or the Intel
> architecture?
> Could you explain?


I suspect it's just the ability of modern compilers to optimise things
cleverly, which probably eliminates register spills in some situations and
interacts in a strange way with x87's non-IEEE behaviour. The gcc bug is
after all very old, so it isn't that the problem is recent.

Joe
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