Re: GCC Compiler Bug? (Or am I just losing my mind?)

[John Marshall]

Thomas Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>    s[0] = '4';
>    d = (double) (s[0] - '0');
>    HostTraceOutputTL(appErrorClass, "Number is %ld", (Int32) d);
> 
>    StrCopy(s, "4");
>    d = (double) (s[0] - '0');
>    HostTraceOutputTL(appErrorClass, "Number is %ld", (Int32) d);
> 
> The output from these statements is:
> 
>    Number is 4
>    Number is 0
> 
> How can the results be different?

Because the optimizer does the first one at compile time, leaving the
second to be done at run time by a broken library function.  Fortunately
this was fixed nine months ago; see

        http://www.escribe.com/computing/pcpqa/m25778.html

    John

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