From: Conor O'Neill <Conor@puddle.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.sys.transputer
Subject: Re: Folding editors
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 21:15:33 +0000
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In article <YNpcALAlmcV2EwK8@cawley.demon.co.uk>, Alec Cawley
<alec@cawley.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <6r4sru1w01.fsf@belhaven.spider.com>, Iain A F Fleming
><iainf@spider.com> writes
>
>>>  The optimising C compiler never worked for me at all.
>>
>>Worked fine for me! What were you problems?
>
>I simply took a working non-optimised program and compiled it with the
>optimising compiler. It simply failed to do anything at all.

Optimising compilers are notoriously good at showing up bugs in existing
programs, especially when those programs are considered to be 'working'
on a non-optimising compiler. But I guess you already know that... :-)
-- 
Conor O'Neill, at home in Bristol, UK
"It's state of the art." "But it doesn't work". "That is the state of the art!"