> The patch was a bit of a scream. I'm the first to admit that 8c needs > a touch of TLC and that an abort() in the middle of a compiler, > without the slightest attempt to deal with the problem is at least as > embarrassing as the expansion of BGETLE, but the original code that > tripped the compiler was also extremely shoddy. And the Go
one does not attempt in a compiler. one does correctly or one does not do. "attempting" is the path to madness. it's been a while since i've debugged something down to the asm and found the compiler had got it wrong. we must keep it this way! - erik
