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Subject: Re: Mysterious triple test failures
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On Saturday, May 3, 2014 12:38:13 PM UTC-7, Nils M Holm wrote:
> In the recent months, several people who ported and/or used my
> SubC compiler[1] reported that the triple test failed, but the
> compiler still worked fine. ...

If the size is the same and the assembly code is the same and all
binaries appear to function and yet are different, I'd suggest to look
at the order in which the object files are linked together.

Alex