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SPEC 2006

Posted Mar 23, 2013 23:10 UTC (Sat) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)
In reply to: Regehr: GCC 4.8 Breaks Broken SPEC 2006 Benchmarks by jedbrown
Parent article: Regehr: GCC 4.8 Breaks Broken SPEC 2006 Benchmarks

Sure, but on the other hand it's possible to sympathise with their argument that SPEC represents fragments of real code. Probably anybody here who has read a lot of C code has seen people doing things much like this. It's /legal/ for GCC to break all those programs, but it's probably not desirable and so I'm glad they changed that for release.


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