Re: Why does the location of PAD move around?

From	Alex <alex@rivadpm.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: Why does the location of PAD move around?
Date	2017-04-04 12:54 +0100
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On 4/4/2017 02:06, HAA wrote:
> 'Standard' would be interrogating /PAD and aborting if it wasn't
> sufficient. But who does that.

The programmer. Not every feature needs to be programmatically checked. 
If you expect your code to be compiled by a variety of compilers, then 
testing your code on a variety of compilers will always be good practise.

I have recently been involved in a project that uses Intel's AVX. The 
assumption is that the binary will only run on processors that support 
AVX. No CPUID check is made for the feature, since things fly out of 
your nose when it's run on a processor that doesn't support it. The end 
result is the same, and the code is shorter.

-- 
Alex

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Why does the location of PAD move around? Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2017-04-01 21:07 -0400
  Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-01 19:32 -0700
    Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Rod Pemberton <NeedNotReplyHere@xrsevnneqk.cem> - 2017-04-02 02:00 -0400
      Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-04-01 23:51 -0700
        Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-01 21:59 -1000
        Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org - 2017-04-09 09:54 -0700
  Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-04-01 20:10 -0700
    Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-01 18:39 -1000
    Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-04-02 08:29 -0700
  Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-04-02 04:13 -0500
    Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-02 18:08 -0700
      Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-04-02 18:13 -0700
        Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-02 18:22 -0700
          Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-04-02 18:31 -0700
          Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-03 04:37 +0200
            Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-02 22:04 -0700
              Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-04 13:47 +0200
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-04-04 10:53 -0500
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-04 17:04 +0100
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-04 19:00 +0200
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-04-05 03:39 -0500
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-05 19:17 +0100
            Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-02 21:44 -1000
          Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-02 21:35 -1000
          Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2017-04-03 03:38 -0500
          Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-05 11:25 +1000
            Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-05 18:23 -0700
              Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-07 14:26 +1000
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-07 08:47 +0100
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-08 10:25 +1000
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-07 20:37 -0700
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-08 12:42 +0100
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? jason.songhurst@gmail.com - 2017-04-08 20:28 -0700
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Coos Haak <htrofhc@gmail.com> - 2017-04-09 13:47 +0200
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-09 08:36 -1000
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-09 14:48 +0200
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-10 10:31 +1000
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-10 09:29 +0100
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-10 11:57 +0200
      Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-03 03:43 +0200
        Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-02 21:53 -1000
  Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-02 21:31 +1000
    Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Coos Haak <htrofhc@gmail.com> - 2017-04-02 15:12 +0200
      Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-03 10:46 +1000
        Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? albert@cherry.spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2017-04-03 03:31 +0200
          Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-02 19:14 -0700
        Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2017-04-02 21:55 -1000
          Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-04-04 11:06 +1000
            Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-04 12:54 +0100
              Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2017-04-04 16:27 +0000
                Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> - 2017-04-04 19:23 +0100
          Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-07 22:04 -0700
    Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-02 14:21 -0700
  Why does the location of PAD move around? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2017-04-02 08:28 -0700
    Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-02 13:47 -0700
      Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-02 15:13 -0700
        Re: Why does the location of PAD move around? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2017-04-02 18:55 -0700

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