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CASE mis-understanding?

Started byMark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk>
First post2014-01-22 13:52 -0800
Last post2014-01-26 01:59 +0100
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  CASE mis-understanding? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-22 13:52 -0800
    Re: CASE mis-understanding? stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-01-22 21:57 +0000
      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-22 14:10 -0800
        Re: CASE mis-understanding? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-22 14:11 -0800
          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2014-01-23 00:14 +0100
      Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-01-22 14:28 -1000
        Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-01-23 20:22 +1100
          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2014-01-23 12:34 +0100
            Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-01-25 22:44 +1100
              Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-01-25 08:49 -1000
                Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-01-25 19:40 -0800
                Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-01-26 23:01 +1100
        Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-01-23 03:43 -0600
          Re: CASE mis-understanding? stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-01-23 10:10 +0000
            Re: CASE mis-understanding? "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2014-01-23 10:31 +0000
              Re: CASE mis-understanding? stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-01-23 11:35 +0000
                Re: CASE mis-understanding? "gareth" <no.spam@thank.you.invalid> - 2014-01-23 13:27 +0000
                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Mikael Nordman <oh2aun@gmail.com> - 2014-01-23 05:52 -0800
                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-01-23 15:50 +0100
                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-24 01:51 -0800
                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-24 02:00 -0800
                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-24 02:08 -0800
                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-24 02:26 -0800
                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-01-24 14:23 +0100
                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-24 05:41 -0800
                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-01-26 00:49 +1100
                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Mikael Nordman <oh2aun@gmail.com> - 2014-01-26 03:01 -0800
                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Mikael Nordman <oh2aun@gmail.com> - 2014-01-23 05:52 -0800
                Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-01-23 08:21 -0600
                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? BF <foxaudioresearch@gmail.com> - 2014-01-23 06:54 -0800
                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-01-23 16:00 +0000
              Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-01-23 20:21 -0800
                Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-01-23 20:33 -0800
                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-01-24 04:33 -0500
                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-10 23:14 +0000
                Re: CASE mis-understanding? Ron Aaron <rambamist@gmail.com> - 2014-01-24 10:49 +0200
                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-01-24 03:26 -0600
                Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-01-24 04:25 -0500
                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-01-27 22:09 +1100
                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-01-28 22:38 -0800
            Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-23 03:22 -0800
            Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-01-23 06:52 -0600
            Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-01-23 16:03 +0100
              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-01-23 10:14 -0600
              Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-01-23 17:42 +0000
              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-23 10:42 -0800
                Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-01-24 15:01 +0100
          Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-01-23 17:21 +0000
            Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-01-23 12:16 -0600
              Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-01-24 09:25 +0000
                Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-01-24 07:16 -0600
                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-24 05:43 -0800
                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? mhx@iae.nl - 2014-01-24 10:57 -0800
                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-01-25 03:58 -0600
                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-01-27 17:24 +0000
                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-01-27 19:25 +0000
                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-01-28 03:34 -0600
                Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-01-24 14:50 +0100
                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-01-27 17:15 +0000
                Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-01-24 21:00 -0800
                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-01-25 20:47 -0800
                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-10 23:36 +0000
            Re: CASE mis-understanding? m.a.m.hendrix@tue.nl - 2014-01-24 00:44 -0800
              Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-01-24 09:20 +0000
        Re: CASE mis-understanding? stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-01-23 10:02 +0000
          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Elizabeth D Rather <erather@forth.com> - 2014-01-23 09:05 -1000
            Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-01-27 00:43 +1100
              Re: CASE mis-understanding? stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-01-26 18:04 +0000
                Re: CASE mis-understanding? mhx@iae.nl - 2014-01-26 11:27 -0800
                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2014-01-26 22:09 +0100
                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-01-26 15:35 -0600
                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-01-29 01:57 +1100
                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? mhx@iae.nl - 2014-01-28 13:46 -0800
                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-01-28 12:12 -1000
                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-01-30 17:19 +0000
                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-02-01 00:40 +1100
                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-31 06:33 -0800
                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-01-31 12:13 -0600
                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-01-31 08:36 -1000
                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-01 00:06 -0800
                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-01-31 15:34 +0000
                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-02-03 16:18 +1100
                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? mhx@iae.nl - 2014-02-01 03:17 -0800
                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-02-02 13:10 +0000
                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-02 16:06 +0000
                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-02 10:43 -0600
                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-02-02 18:39 +0100
                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-03 14:18 +0000
                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-02 18:49 -0800
                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-02-03 09:35 +0000
                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2014-02-03 09:56 +0000
                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? m.a.m.hendrix@tue.nl - 2014-02-03 02:50 -0800
                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-03 03:17 -0800
                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-02-03 14:31 +0000
                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-03 19:17 -0800
                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-04 12:23 +0000
                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-03 19:26 -0800
                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-02-04 08:05 +0000
                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-02 19:07 -0800
                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-01-30 15:59 +0000
                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2014-01-31 02:34 +0100
                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2014-01-31 02:38 +0100
                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-01-30 15:51 -1000
                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-03 14:58 +0000
                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? mhx@iae.nl - 2014-02-03 12:06 -0800
                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-09 15:04 +0000
                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? mhx@iae.nl - 2014-02-09 10:56 -0800
                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-10 15:58 +0000
                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? mhx@iae.nl - 2014-02-10 12:06 -0800
                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-11 11:22 +0000
                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? m.a.m.hendrix@tue.nl - 2014-02-11 05:23 -0800
                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? mhx@iae.nl - 2014-02-12 10:54 -0800
                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-10 18:12 -0500
                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-10 05:13 -0600
                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-02-10 15:44 +0000
                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-10 10:40 -0600
                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-02-10 17:47 +0100
                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-10 16:34 +0000
                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-10 11:09 -0600
                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-10 17:20 +0000
                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-10 12:14 -0600
                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-02-10 22:38 +0000
                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-11 03:46 -0600
                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-02-11 10:30 +0000
                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-11 18:24 -0600
                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-12 15:02 +0000
                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-12 11:23 -0600
                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-13 09:25 +0000
                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-13 04:54 -0600
                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-13 13:41 +0000
                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-13 14:14 +0000
                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-13 08:41 -0600
                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-13 15:29 +0000
                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-13 12:07 -0600
                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-15 16:14 +0000
                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-15 13:22 -0600
                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-17 12:28 +0000
                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-17 14:05 +0000
                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-17 09:49 -0600
                                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-02-17 19:06 +0100
                                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-17 12:52 -0600
                                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-02-17 22:51 +0100
                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-18 04:36 -0600
                                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-18 09:34 +0000
                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-18 05:01 -0600
                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-18 14:19 +0000
                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-18 08:28 -0800
                                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-18 17:14 +0000
                                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-18 11:46 -0800
                                                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-18 18:20 -0500
                                                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-02-19 17:10 +0100
                                                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-19 23:17 -0800
                                                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-20 09:55 -0600
                                                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-02-21 20:15 +0100
                                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-22 12:08 +0000
                                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-22 14:45 -0800
                                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-02-23 02:29 +0100
                                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-22 21:29 -0800
                                                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-02-23 22:33 +0100
                                                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-23 22:13 -0800
                                                                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-24 17:30 +0000
                                                                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-24 14:38 -0800
                                                                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-26 12:59 +0000
                                                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-26 20:12 -0800
                                                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-27 04:54 -0600
                                                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2014-02-27 12:56 +0100
                                                                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-27 06:30 -0600
                                                                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-27 05:29 -0800
                                                                                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-27 15:48 +0000
                                                                                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-27 08:13 -0800
                                                                                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-27 16:23 -0500
                                                                                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-28 11:21 +0000
                                                                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-28 16:20 -0500
                                                                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-03-01 01:51 +0000
                                                                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-28 23:36 -0500
                                                                                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-03-01 12:45 +0000
                                                                                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2014-03-01 13:59 +0100
                                                                                                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-03-01 13:03 +0000
                                                                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-03-01 07:53 +0000
                                                                                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-27 10:12 -0600
                                                                                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-27 08:46 -0800
                                                                                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-27 10:56 -0600
                                                                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-27 10:08 -0800
                                                                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-27 11:01 -0800
                                                                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-27 08:12 -1000
                                                                                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-27 16:23 -0500
                                                                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2014-02-27 19:53 +0100
                                                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-27 07:48 -0800
                                                                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-27 16:05 +0000
                                                                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-27 08:27 -0800
                                                                                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-27 10:45 -0600
                                                                                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-27 20:51 +0000
                                                                                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-03-01 08:46 -0600
                                                                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-03-01 16:53 -0500
                                                                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-03-01 15:06 -1000
                                                                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-03-04 01:50 +0100
                                                                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-03 17:18 -0800
                                                                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-03-04 02:51 +0100
                                                                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-03-04 03:20 -0600
                                                                                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-04 19:12 -0800
                                                                                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-03-05 03:51 -0600
                                                                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-03-04 10:11 +0000
                                                                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-03-05 14:09 +0100
                                                                                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-01 11:20 -0800
                                                                                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-03-01 15:43 -0600
                                                                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-01 22:16 -0800
                                                                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-03-02 04:56 -0600
                                                                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-03-02 14:07 +0000
                                                                                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-03-03 00:59 -0800
                                                                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-02 08:20 -0800
                                                                                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-03-03 03:03 -0600
                                                                                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-03-06 18:09 +0000
                                                                                                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-03-06 17:26 -0600
                                                                                                                                      WITHIN (was: CASE mis-understanding?) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-03-07 12:51 +0000
                                                                                                                                        Re: WITHIN Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-07 12:13 -0800
                                                                                                                                          Re: WITHIN mhx@iae.nl - 2014-03-08 05:07 -0800
                                                                                                                                            Re: WITHIN anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-03-08 15:43 +0000
                                                                                                                                              Re: WITHIN mhx@iae.nl - 2014-03-08 08:23 -0800
                                                                                                                                            Re: WITHIN anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-03-08 16:37 +0000
                                                                                                                                              Re: WITHIN mhx@iae.nl - 2014-03-08 10:18 -0800
                                                                                                                                                Re: WITHIN mhx@iae.nl - 2014-03-08 10:48 -0800
                                                                                                                                          Re: WITHIN anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-03-08 16:02 +0000
                                                                                                                                            Re: WITHIN Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-09 01:24 -0800
                                                                                                                                              Re: WITHIN anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-03-09 18:16 +0000
                                                                                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-06 21:46 -0800
                                                                                                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-03-07 09:22 +0000
                                                                                                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-03-07 12:28 +0000
                                                                                                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-03-07 19:36 +0000
                                                                                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-03-06 18:25 +0000
                                                                                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-06 23:52 -0800
                                                                                                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-03-07 10:15 +0000
                                                                                                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-07 08:38 -0800
                                                                                                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-07 09:36 -0800
                                                                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-03-02 20:16 -0800
                                                                                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-27 08:18 -1000
                                                                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-03-07 13:21 +0000
                                                                                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-03-07 08:26 -0600
                                                                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-27 10:37 -0600
                                                                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-01 11:31 -0800
                                                                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-03-07 13:18 +0000
                                                                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-07 11:17 -0800
                                                                                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2014-03-09 20:49 +0000
                                                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-27 16:22 -0500
                                                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-28 15:22 +0000
                                                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-28 18:32 +0000
                                                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-01 03:39 -0800
                                                                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-03-04 02:19 +0100
                                                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-27 13:03 +0000
                                                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-24 01:25 -0500
                                                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-24 03:36 -0600
                                                                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-24 02:04 -0800
                                                                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-03-04 01:15 +0100
                                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2014-02-22 21:09 -0800
                                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-22 21:55 -0800
                                                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2014-02-23 00:47 -0800
                                                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-23 01:45 -0800
                                                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-20 17:07 +0000
                                                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-20 16:03 -0800
                                                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-21 04:11 -0600
                                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-21 10:59 +0000
                                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-21 03:26 -0800
                                                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-02-21 10:34 +0000
                                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-21 05:49 -0600
                                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-02-22 13:52 +0000
                                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-22 09:13 -0600
                                                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-22 10:45 -0500
                                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-21 20:18 -0800
                                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-22 15:24 +0000
                                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-22 10:37 -0500
                                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-11 03:20 +0000
                                                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-03-11 16:15 -0400
                                                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-03-12 00:10 -0700
                                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-22 13:28 +0000
                                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-22 08:56 -0600
                                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-02-23 01:27 +0100
                                                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-23 04:33 -0600
                                                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-23 08:11 -0800
                                                                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-02-23 21:44 +0100
                                                                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-23 22:48 -0800
                                                                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-03-04 02:23 +0100
                                                                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-24 16:05 +0000
                                                                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Tristan Plumb <firth@trstn.net> - 2014-02-24 18:15 +0000
                                                                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-24 18:45 +0000
                                                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Tristan Plumb <firth@trstn.net> - 2014-02-24 19:18 +0000
                                                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-26 12:40 +0000
                                                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Tristan Plumb <st@trstn.net> - 2014-02-26 15:27 +0000
                                                                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-03-04 01:31 +0100
                                                                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-03-04 16:30 +0000
                                                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-03-05 11:48 +0000
                                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-22 18:28 -0800
                                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? Gary Bergstrom <forthprgrmr@gmail.com> - 2014-02-24 08:39 -0800
                                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-24 21:29 -0800
                                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-11 00:44 +0000
                                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-11 00:45 +0000
                                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-23 04:35 -0600
                                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-18 12:31 -0600
                                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-18 18:19 -0500
                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-18 11:06 -0600
                                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-18 12:51 +0000
                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-18 14:40 +0000
                                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-18 08:17 +0000
                                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-18 04:48 -0600
                                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-18 13:56 +0000
                                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-18 11:15 -0600
                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-18 18:24 -0500
                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-19 03:46 -0600
                                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-21 15:52 +0000
                                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-22 09:10 -0600
                                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-18 13:09 +0000
                                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-18 15:03 +0000
                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-13 15:53 -0800
                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-02-14 00:39 +0100
                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-14 06:38 -0600
                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-15 15:37 +0000
                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-15 13:33 -0600
                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Roelf Toxopeus <rt4all@notthis.hetnet.nl> - 2014-02-11 10:50 +0100
                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2014-02-11 10:57 +0000
                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-11 02:35 -0800
                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-11 11:47 +0000
                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-11 13:08 +0000
                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-11 18:42 -0600
                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-12 10:54 +0000
                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-12 05:31 -0600
                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-12 15:52 +0000
                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-12 10:41 -0600
                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-13 09:27 +0000
                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-02-13 04:49 -0600
                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-13 13:54 +0000
                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? mhx@iae.nl - 2014-02-03 12:26 -0800
                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-02-07 13:41 +1100
                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? m.a.m.hendrix@tue.nl - 2014-02-07 01:08 -0800
                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-02-08 09:56 +1100
                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-02-07 12:15 +0000
                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-02-01 00:39 +1100
                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? m.a.m.hendrix@tue.nl - 2014-01-31 07:29 -0800
                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-02-04 23:45 +1100
                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-01-31 16:31 +0000
                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-02-03 12:35 +1100
                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-02-03 09:32 +0000
                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-02-08 09:31 +1100
                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-02-08 11:22 +0000
                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-02-03 13:54 +0000
                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-01-31 08:40 -1000
              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Mikael Nordman <oh2aun@gmail.com> - 2014-01-26 22:03 -0800
                Re: CASE mis-understanding? julian.fondren@gmail.com - 2014-01-29 17:19 -0800
                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Mikael Nordman <oh2aun@gmail.com> - 2014-01-30 11:15 -0800
              Re: CASE mis-understanding? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-01-27 13:57 +0000
                Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-01-28 14:01 +0000
                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-01-28 14:49 +0000
                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-01-29 10:07 +1100
                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-01-28 21:54 -0800
                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? Stefan Mauerhofer <smauerhofer@androsoft.ch> - 2014-01-29 00:33 -0800
                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-01-29 03:37 -0600
                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-01-30 21:51 -0800
                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-01-31 18:44 -0500
                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? David Thompson <dave.thompson2@verizon.net> - 2014-02-09 00:34 -0500
                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-09 22:14 -0500
                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-11 01:25 +0000
                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2014-01-31 17:44 -0800
                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-01-31 16:03 -1000
                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-01 01:55 -0800
                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-01 11:34 +0000
                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-01 08:11 -1000
                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-02-02 14:28 +0000
                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-02 18:28 -0800
                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-02-07 13:34 +1100
                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-02-07 03:52 +0100
                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-02-08 09:41 +1100
                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-07 18:33 -0500
                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2014-02-08 00:31 +0100
                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-02-08 11:21 +0000
                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-02-08 15:03 +0100
                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-08 19:58 -0800
                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-02-09 08:33 +0000
                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-09 19:50 -0800
                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-02-10 08:42 +0000
                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-13 16:32 -0800
                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2014-02-14 02:36 +0100
                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-13 23:04 -0800
                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-13 23:40 -0800
                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-14 04:37 -0500
                                                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-14 09:42 -1000
                                                    Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-15 16:52 -0800
                                                      Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-02-16 07:46 -0500
                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-16 08:11 -1000
                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-16 16:15 -0800
                                                        Re: CASE mis-understanding? Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2014-02-17 09:03 +0100
                                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-16 22:12 -1000
                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? m.a.m.hendrix@tue.nl - 2014-02-17 02:29 -0800
                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-02-17 04:27 -0800
                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-17 09:36 -1000
                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-17 09:22 -1000
                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? Alex McDonald <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-02-17 12:06 -0800
                                                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-17 20:18 -0800
                                                              Re: CASE mis-understanding? "WJ" <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-11 01:48 +0000
                                                                Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-03-11 16:10 -0400
                                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-02-14 13:54 +0000
                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-02-06 17:03 -1000
                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2014-02-08 09:39 +1100
                          Re: CASE mis-understanding? hughaguilar96@yahoo.com - 2014-02-07 20:12 -0800
                            Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Alex McDonald" <blog@rivadpm.com> - 2014-02-09 21:33 +0000
    Re: CASE mis-understanding? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-24 02:38 -0800
      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2014-01-24 16:17 +0000
        Re: CASE mis-understanding? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-24 08:54 -0800
          Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-01-24 09:25 -1000
            Re: CASE mis-understanding? Gerry Jackson <gerry@jackson9000.fsnet.co.uk> - 2014-01-24 20:34 +0000
              Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2014-01-24 11:13 -1000
                Re: CASE mis-understanding? "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnohavenotit.cnm> - 2014-01-24 17:39 -0500
                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-24 16:05 -0800
                  Re: CASE mis-understanding? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-01-25 11:46 +0000
    Re: CASE mis-understanding? Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-25 16:15 -0800
      Re: CASE mis-understanding? Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-01-26 01:59 +0100

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#28301

FromAndrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Date2014-02-10 12:14 -0600
Message-ID<rY-dndZnjOuDimTPnZ2dnUVZ_t6dnZ2d@supernews.com>
In reply to#28300
Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>>Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>>For example,
>>>>here is EXECUTE1:
>>>>
>>>>( 080BFE40    83FB7F )                CMP       EBX, 7F
>>>>( 080BFE43    0F8606000000 )          JBE/NA    080BFE4F
>>>>( 080BFE49    BB06000000 )            MOV       EBX, 00000006
>>>>( 080BFE4E    C3 )                    NEXT,
>>>>( 080BFE4F    C1E302 )                SHL       EBX, 02
>>>>( 080BFE52    8B93B0FB0B08 )          MOV       EDX, [EBX+080BFBB0]
>>>>( 080BFE58    8B5D00 )                MOV       EBX, [EBP]
>>>>( 080BFE5B    8D6D04 )                LEA       EBP, [EBP+04]
>>>>( 080BFE5E    FFD2 )                  CALL      EDX
>>>>( 080BFE60    C3 )                    NEXT,
>>>>
>>>>As you can see, this ends with a call followed by a return.
>>> 
>>> AFAIK that's intentional to support return address manipulation.
>>
>>Sure, but that behaviour isn't required by the Forth language,
> 
> It is required by the Forth language as supported by VFX. 

I suppose so; but that is not *the* Forth language.  
Not yet, anyway.  :-)

> Fortunately the GCC disease of miscompiling all non-standard code
> (except SPEC benchmarks) has not spread to Forth yet.

[ Maybe I ought to have a STD_DISCLAIMER of the form "When Anton
inserts an irrelevant GCC flame into a discussion, I'm going to ignore
him.  It's a pointless provocation and leads only to flame wars." ]

Anyway, this language "feature" means that VFX can't do tail call
elimination, a very simple optimization that was available way back
in cmFORTH.  This fact casts some doubt upon your performance
comparison.  I don't think that it's likely to be a huge difference,
but it is likely to be significant.

>>and it means that we're not comparing other versions of this code
>>with a straightforward jump table.
> 
> Whatever that may be. 

It would be more straightforward without a CALL and RET.

> BTW, what may (or may not) make the IF-based variants look better than
> the EXECUTE-based variant is that the words .LOWER etc. are inlined in
> the IF-based variants, but not in the EXECUTE-based variant.

Indeed, I have noticed that, but I think it's typical of what a
compiler would do in real code.

Andrew.

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#28304

FromstephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc)
Date2014-02-10 22:38 +0000
Message-ID<52f95386.555836101@news.demon.co.uk>
In reply to#28301
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:14:54 -0600, Andrew Haley
<andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote:

>Anyway, this language "feature" means that VFX can't do tail call
>elimination, a very simple optimization that was available way back
>in cmFORTH.  This fact casts some doubt upon your performance
>comparison.  I don't think that it's likely to be a huge difference,
>but it is likely to be significant.

As Anton has pointed out, VFX *chooses* not to do tail call
elimination. We could do it, but the demand is not there. We have,
however, been thanked for not doing it as other traditional Forth
techniques such as return stack manipulation are simple to
implement in VFX.

The only safe way to do tail call elimination is to have a switch to
disable it.

I'm becoming less and less interested in the last few nanoseconds.
Reliability is good.

Stephen

-- 
Stephen Pelc, stephenXXX@mpeforth.com
MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd - More Real, Less Time
133 Hill Lane, Southampton SO15 5AF, England
tel: +44 (0)23 8063 1441, fax: +44 (0)23 8033 9691
web: http://www.mpeforth.com - free VFX Forth downloads

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#28306

FromAndrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Date2014-02-11 03:46 -0600
Message-ID<Wr2dndjFkeESbGTPnZ2dnUVZ_hKdnZ2d@supernews.com>
In reply to#28304
Stephen Pelc <stephenXXX@mpeforth.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:14:54 -0600, Andrew Haley
> <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>Anyway, this language "feature" means that VFX can't do tail call
>>elimination, a very simple optimization that was available way back
>>in cmFORTH.  This fact casts some doubt upon your performance
>>comparison.  I don't think that it's likely to be a huge difference,
>>but it is likely to be significant.
> 
> As Anton has pointed out, VFX *chooses* not to do tail call
> elimination. We could do it, but the demand is not there. We have,
> however, been thanked for not doing it as other traditional Forth
> techniques such as return stack manipulation are simple to
> implement in VFX.

Well, yes, I know, and so does everyone else who read our last
discussion about this.  I don't particularly want to revisit it.

> The only safe way to do tail call elimination is to have a switch to
> disable it.

That'd be useful for this benchmark, but maybe not for anything else.

> I'm becoming less and less interested in the last few nanoseconds.

But the subject of this discussion is the last few nanoseconds: that's
all we're talking about now.

> Reliability is good.

And reliability is enhanced by return stack manipulation.

Andrew.

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#28309

FromstephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc)
Date2014-02-11 10:30 +0000
Message-ID<52f9fb81.598838775@news.demon.co.uk>
In reply to#28306
On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 03:46:55 -0600, Andrew Haley
<andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote:

>> Reliability is good.
>
>And reliability is enhanced by return stack manipulation.

Explain and point to proof, please. Otherwise, that's just handwaving.

Stephen

-- 
Stephen Pelc, stephenXXX@mpeforth.com
MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd - More Real, Less Time
133 Hill Lane, Southampton SO15 5AF, England
tel: +44 (0)23 8063 1441, fax: +44 (0)23 8033 9691
web: http://www.mpeforth.com - free VFX Forth downloads

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#28317

FromAndrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Date2014-02-11 18:24 -0600
Message-ID<o6ydne0RjaHSImfPnZ2dnUVZ_rudnZ2d@supernews.com>
In reply to#28309
Stephen Pelc <stephenXXX@mpeforth.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 03:46:55 -0600, Andrew Haley
> <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>> Reliability is good.
>>
>>And reliability is enhanced by return stack manipulation.
> 
> Explain and point to proof, please. Otherwise, that's just
> handwaving.

Proof of what?  What proof did you provide?

I presume that when you said "Reliability is good" it had some
relevance to the rest of the posting.  Did it not?

Andrew.

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#28332

Fromalbert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst)
Date2014-02-12 15:02 +0000
Message-ID<52fb8d00$0$9256$e4fe514c@dreader35.news.xs4all.nl>
In reply to#28306
In article <Wr2dndjFkeESbGTPnZ2dnUVZ_hKdnZ2d@supernews.com>,
Andrew Haley  <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote:
>Stephen Pelc <stephenXXX@mpeforth.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:14:54 -0600, Andrew Haley
>> <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>Anyway, this language "feature" means that VFX can't do tail call
>>>elimination, a very simple optimization that was available way back
>>>in cmFORTH.  This fact casts some doubt upon your performance
>>>comparison.  I don't think that it's likely to be a huge difference,
>>>but it is likely to be significant.
>>
>> As Anton has pointed out, VFX *chooses* not to do tail call
>> elimination. We could do it, but the demand is not there. We have,
>> however, been thanked for not doing it as other traditional Forth
>> techniques such as return stack manipulation are simple to
>> implement in VFX.
>
>Well, yes, I know, and so does everyone else who read our last
>discussion about this.  I don't particularly want to revisit it.
>
>> The only safe way to do tail call elimination is to have a switch to
>> disable it.
>
>That'd be useful for this benchmark, but maybe not for anything else.
>
>> I'm becoming less and less interested in the last few nanoseconds.
>
>But the subject of this discussion is the last few nanoseconds: that's
>all we're talking about now.
>
>> Reliability is good.
>
>And reliability is enhanced by return stack manipulation.

You know very well what he means. Overall there will be less surprises
with VFX, in this case from the people who use stack manipulation,
or use a package from some-one who does.
In real life it is little use to tell your clients :
"You shouldn't have..."

>
>Andrew.


Groetjes Albert
-- 
Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS
Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters.
albert@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst

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#28336

FromAndrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Date2014-02-12 11:23 -0600
Message-ID<i66dnVD_5cpqMGbPnZ2dnUVZ_tydnZ2d@supernews.com>
In reply to#28332
Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> In article <Wr2dndjFkeESbGTPnZ2dnUVZ_hKdnZ2d@supernews.com>,
> Andrew Haley  <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote:
>>Stephen Pelc <stephenXXX@mpeforth.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm becoming less and less interested in the last few nanoseconds.
>>
>>But the subject of this discussion is the last few nanoseconds: that's
>>all we're talking about now.
>>
>>> Reliability is good.
>>
>>And reliability is enhanced by return stack manipulation.
> 
> You know very well what he means. Overall there will be less surprises
> with VFX, in this case from the people who use stack manipulation,
> or use a package from some-one who does.
> In real life it is little use to tell your clients :
> "You shouldn't have..."

Sure, I am happy to believe that it makes perfect commercial sense to
support return address manipulation.  It is a bit of a stretch to
invoke reliability in support of it, though.  Colour me skeptical.

Andrew.

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#28372

Fromanton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Date2014-02-13 09:25 +0000
Message-ID<2014Feb13.102556@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>
In reply to#28336
Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>Sure, I am happy to believe that it makes perfect commercial sense to
>support return address manipulation.  It is a bit of a stretch to
>invoke reliability in support of it, though.  Colour me skeptical.

A reliable compiler does not silently miscompile a program that works
perfectly fine on the previous version of the compiler.

- anton
-- 
M. Anton Ertl  http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html
     New standard: http://www.forth200x.org/forth200x.html
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#28376

FromAndrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Date2014-02-13 04:54 -0600
Message-ID<z-mdnVgtVLrEOWHPnZ2dnUVZ_q2dnZ2d@supernews.com>
In reply to#28372
Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>>Sure, I am happy to believe that it makes perfect commercial sense to
>>support return address manipulation.  It is a bit of a stretch to
>>invoke reliability in support of it, though.  Colour me skeptical.
> 
> A reliable compiler does not silently miscompile a program that
> works perfectly fine on the previous version of the compiler.

This is an utterly ludicrous claim.  It means that any effect of a
compiler, even if caused by an error in that compiler, has to be
preserved forever if it makes one nonstandard (and, formally speaking,
undefined) program work as its author expected.

Andrew.

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#28381

Fromanton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Date2014-02-13 13:41 +0000
Message-ID<2014Feb13.144124@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>
In reply to#28376
Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>> A reliable compiler does not silently miscompile a program that
>> works perfectly fine on the previous version of the compiler.
>
>This is an utterly ludicrous claim.  It means that any effect of a
>compiler, even if caused by an error in that compiler, has to be
>preserved forever if it makes one nonstandard (and, formally speaking,
>undefined) program work as its author expected.

Yes, preserving effects is the cost of staying compatible, and serious
software infrastructure providers pay these costs in order to provide
a stable environment.  What does it say about someone when they call
that ludicrous?  Will they rename XOR to OR next?  Or will they
"optimize" counted loops into endless loops?

Of course, there are ways to phase out features that one no longer
wants to support.  First, document that it is going away in the
future.  Then provide a way to turn the new behaviour on.  Next, warn
about the use of the old feature.  Then, many years later, give an
error message, but with some way to get the old behaviour back.  But
silently miscompiling previously working programs is not the way to
inspire confidence into the compiler, nor to encourage programmers to
switch to the new one.

- anton
-- 
M. Anton Ertl  http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html
     New standard: http://www.forth200x.org/forth200x.html
   EuroForth 2013: http://www.euroforth.org/ef13/

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#28383

Fromalbert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst)
Date2014-02-13 14:14 +0000
Message-ID<52fcd333$0$24940$e4fe514c@dreader36.news.xs4all.nl>
In reply to#28381
In article <2014Feb13.144124@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>,
Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>>Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>>> A reliable compiler does not silently miscompile a program that
>>> works perfectly fine on the previous version of the compiler.
>>
>>This is an utterly ludicrous claim.  It means that any effect of a
>>compiler, even if caused by an error in that compiler, has to be
>>preserved forever if it makes one nonstandard (and, formally speaking,
>>undefined) program work as its author expected.
>
>Yes, preserving effects is the cost of staying compatible, and serious
>software infrastructure providers pay these costs in order to provide
>a stable environment.  What does it say about someone when they call
>that ludicrous?  Will they rename XOR to OR next?  Or will they
>"optimize" counted loops into endless loops?
>
>Of course, there are ways to phase out features that one no longer
>wants to support.  First, document that it is going away in the
>future.  Then provide a way to turn the new behaviour on.  Next, warn
>about the use of the old feature.  Then, many years later, give an
>error message, but with some way to get the old behaviour back.  But
>silently miscompiling previously working programs is not the way to
>inspire confidence into the compiler, nor to encourage programmers to
>switch to the new one.

That's ideal. When it comes to a product that is supported by a single
implementor, it is acceptable -- or so I hope -- that new features
are renamed, old features do not compile. Then document that at the users
discretion an old version is still available.

In the current example of removing the possibility of return
stack manipulation, I would thread very carefully. Probably I
would rename the compiler, such as to douse any hopes that programs
should run, and force them to be ported instead.
Anyone not paying attention to the non-portable stack manipulation
while porting is a simpleton, and gets what they deserve. 1]

Anyway arguing that return stack manipulations just shouldn't take place
is fruitless.

>- anton

1]
I like that word: simpleton, from reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Hope it is not too offensive.
-- 
Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS
Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters.
albert@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst

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#28384

FromAndrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Date2014-02-13 08:41 -0600
Message-ID<g4ydncrEzJcyRGHPnZ2dnUVZ_hGdnZ2d@supernews.com>
In reply to#28381
Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>>Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>>> A reliable compiler does not silently miscompile a program that
>>> works perfectly fine on the previous version of the compiler.
>>
>>This is an utterly ludicrous claim.  It means that any effect of a
>>compiler, even if caused by an error in that compiler, has to be
>>preserved forever if it makes one nonstandard (and, formally speaking,
>>undefined) program work as its author expected.
> 
> Yes, preserving effects is the cost of staying compatible, and
> serious software infrastructure providers

and their users

> pay these costs in order to provide a stable environment.

We shall simply have to agree to differ.  

It means that no optimization that can possibly affect a program,
whether that program is well-defined or not, can ever be made.  This
even includes optimizations whose only effect is to speed up a
program, because timing can affect the output of a badly-written
program.  So no optimzation may ever be done.

I think that this is a hopelessly idealistic (not to say naive) view.

Andrew.

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#28385

Fromanton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Date2014-02-13 15:29 +0000
Message-ID<2014Feb13.162903@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>
In reply to#28384
Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>It means that no optimization that can possibly affect a program,
>whether that program is well-defined or not, can ever be made.  This
>even includes optimizations whose only effect is to speed up a
>program, because timing can affect the output of a badly-written
>program.

On a platform that totally defines every part of the hardware and the
software, and there are no outside influences, maybe some software
relies on the timing not changing, and in this case keeping the timing
the same may be advisable for a stable platform.  OTOH, all changes
may affect some timings (e.g., having more words will change the
timing of dictionary searches), so if someone write such a program,
they will probably stay with the same version of the Forth system
anyway.

But for the platforms I work with, timing is influenced by so many
things (e.g., other processes polluting the caches and branch
predictors), that programmers do not write programs that rely on the
exact timings of code, and if they did, the programs would not work
anyway.

But otherwise, yes, proper optimizations do not silently change the
behaviour of programs.

A more relevant case is reading uninitialized data.  That may lead to
one behaviour in one version of a Forth system and a different
behaviour in the next version, even if the optimizations in these
versions do not differ.  Again, if a program intentionally relies on
that, it is probably best of sticking with one version.  For the
system it's a good idea to initialize data (at least optionally), to
allow to initialize it in several ways (to support the programmer to
find the problem in testing), and ideally to have tools for finding
the reads of uninitialized data.

>So no optimzation may ever be done.
>
>I think that this is a hopelessly idealistic (not to say naive) view.

Sure, you put up an unrealistic straw man.

But the approach "miscompile non-standard programs silently" leads to
people turning off "optimization", or (if that option exists) getting
rid of the unreliable compiler.

I recently heard a talk at HiPEAC, where the presenter said that ISVs
don't turn on optimization, because they are blamed if the program
does not behave as it should, whereas binary optimization apparently
has a better reputation.  My guess is that's because the binary
optimizer preserves the binary's behaviour (which is defined much more
tightly than some programming languages) instead of miscompiling the
program based on language lawyering of a weakly defined standard.

- anton
-- 
M. Anton Ertl  http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html
     New standard: http://www.forth200x.org/forth200x.html
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#28386

FromAndrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Date2014-02-13 12:07 -0600
Message-ID<Z-KdndiCNZdAlGDPnZ2dnUVZ_jidnZ2d@supernews.com>
In reply to#28385
Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>>It means that no optimization that can possibly affect a program,
>>whether that program is well-defined or not, can ever be made.  This
>>even includes optimizations whose only effect is to speed up a
>>program, because timing can affect the output of a badly-written
>>program.
> 
> On a platform that totally defines every part of the hardware and the
> software, and there are no outside influences, maybe some software
> relies on the timing not changing, and in this case keeping the timing
> the same may be advisable for a stable platform.  OTOH, all changes
> may affect some timings (e.g., having more words will change the
> timing of dictionary searches), so if someone write such a program,
> they will probably stay with the same version of the Forth system
> anyway.
> 
> But for the platforms I work with, timing is influenced by so many
> things (e.g., other processes polluting the caches and branch
> predictors), that programmers do not write programs that rely on the
> exact timings of code, and if they did, the programs would not work
> anyway.

I have certainly seen race conditions that were exposed when an
optimization speeded up part of the code.  Of course, the compiler was
blamed for "breaking the program", but all it did was make part of the
program go faster.

> But otherwise, yes, proper optimizations do not silently change the
> behaviour of programs.

> A more relevant case is reading uninitialized data.  That may lead to
> one behaviour in one version of a Forth system and a different
> behaviour in the next version, even if the optimizations in these
> versions do not differ.  Again, if a program intentionally relies on
> that, it is probably best of sticking with one version.

So, a "proper optimization" is allowed to change the behaviour of a
program that worked because uninitialized data had a particular value.
Is that right or not?

But you said that:

>>> A reliable compiler does not silently miscompile a program that
>>> works perfectly fine on the previous version of the compiler.

> For the system it's a good idea to initialize data (at least
> optionally), to allow to initialize it in several ways (to support
> the programmer to find the problem in testing), and ideally to have
> tools for finding the reads of uninitialized data.
> 
>>So no optimzation may ever be done.
>>
>>I think that this is a hopelessly idealistic (not to say naive) view.
> 
> Sure, you put up an unrealistic straw man.

I am trying to turn what you wrote into something that makes sense.
The only way I can do that is follow its logical implications,
wherever they may lead.

By "miscompile" I understood "generate code that does something
different".  But now I see that for you "miscompile" doesn't mean
that.  It seems to mean "doesn't do any optimization that would
surprise me."

Andrew.

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#28454

Fromanton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Date2014-02-15 16:14 +0000
Message-ID<2014Feb15.171430@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>
In reply to#28386
Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>> But for the platforms I work with, timing is influenced by so many
>> things (e.g., other processes polluting the caches and branch
>> predictors), that programmers do not write programs that rely on the
>> exact timings of code, and if they did, the programs would not work
>> anyway.
>
>I have certainly seen race conditions that were exposed when an
>optimization speeded up part of the code.

Yes, can happen.

>Of course, the compiler was
>blamed for "breaking the program", but all it did was make part of the
>program go faster.

Well if a compiler's optimizer has miscompiled before, that's what one
tends to think of when an optimization changes the behaviour.

>> But otherwise, yes, proper optimizations do not silently change the
>> behaviour of programs.
>
>> A more relevant case is reading uninitialized data.  That may lead to
>> one behaviour in one version of a Forth system and a different
>> behaviour in the next version, even if the optimizations in these
>> versions do not differ.  Again, if a program intentionally relies on
>> that, it is probably best of sticking with one version.
>
>So, a "proper optimization" is allowed to change the behaviour of a
>program that worked because uninitialized data had a particular value.
>Is that right or not?

That's a judgement call, that's why I brought it up.

>But you said that:
>
>>>> A reliable compiler does not silently miscompile a program that
>>>> works perfectly fine on the previous version of the compiler.

Yes.  And that's the attitude one should employ when writing an optimizer.

There are some things that pretty much preclude optimization (and also
preclude most other changes in the compiler).  One example is if the
timing has to be kept the same as in the unoptimized case.  In this
case it's obvious that the only option is not to optimize.  But the
compiler already does that by not turning on optimization, so an
optimizer does not need to cater for that particular case.  The only
problem with this is if the programmer is unaware that his program
depends on the exact timing (as in the case reported above).

I think that depending on uninitialized data is pretty much in the
same category of things that preclude most changes in the compiler.
But I might be wrong.

>By "miscompile" I understood "generate code that does something
>different".  But now I see that for you "miscompile" doesn't mean
>that.  It seems to mean "doesn't do any optimization that would
>surprise me."

"Miscompile" means "generate code that behaves different from what the
programmer intended" (while the compiler generates code as intended
without optimization).  Does a programmer intentionally write code in
non-assembly language that depends on the exact timing?  I doubt it.
Do they intentionally write code that depends on particular values for
uninitialized data?  Probably not that many.

- anton
-- 
M. Anton Ertl  http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html
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#28459

FromAndrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Date2014-02-15 13:22 -0600
Message-ID<BYedna7sVMrCI2LPnZ2dnUVZ_rGdnZ2d@supernews.com>
In reply to#28454
Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>>Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>>> But for the platforms I work with, timing is influenced by so many
>>> things (e.g., other processes polluting the caches and branch
>>> predictors), that programmers do not write programs that rely on the
>>> exact timings of code, and if they did, the programs would not work
>>> anyway.
>>
>>I have certainly seen race conditions that were exposed when an
>>optimization speeded up part of the code.
> 
> Yes, can happen.
> 
>>Of course, the compiler was blamed for "breaking the program", but
>>all it did was make part of the program go faster.
> 
> Well if a compiler's optimizer has miscompiled before, that's what one
> tends to think of when an optimization changes the behaviour.

There is a subset of programmers who reach for "compiler bug" as a
first explanation whenever a program doesn't do what they want,
especially when its behaviour changes when it is optimized.

>>> But otherwise, yes, proper optimizations do not silently change the
>>> behaviour of programs.
>>
>>> A more relevant case is reading uninitialized data.  That may lead to
>>> one behaviour in one version of a Forth system and a different
>>> behaviour in the next version, even if the optimizations in these
>>> versions do not differ.  Again, if a program intentionally relies on
>>> that, it is probably best of sticking with one version.
>>
>>So, a "proper optimization" is allowed to change the behaviour of a
>>program that worked because uninitialized data had a particular value.
>>Is that right or not?
> 
> That's a judgement call, that's why I brought it up.

What does this mean?  Is that right or not?

>>But you said that:
>>
>>>>> A reliable compiler does not silently miscompile a program that
>>>>> works perfectly fine on the previous version of the compiler.
> 
> Yes.  And that's the attitude one should employ when writing an
> optimizer.

I'm trying to discover what this means.

> There are some things that pretty much preclude optimization (and
> also preclude most other changes in the compiler).  One example is
> if the timing has to be kept the same as in the unoptimized case.
> In this case it's obvious that the only option is not to optimize.
> But the compiler already does that by not turning on optimization,
> so an optimizer does not need to cater for that particular case.
> The only problem with this is if the programmer is unaware that his
> program depends on the exact timing (as in the case reported above).
>
> I think that depending on uninitialized data is pretty much in the
> same category of things that preclude most changes in the compiler.

I think so too.

> But I might be wrong.

Here's another question, to help me to understand your position: is a
"proper optimization" allowed to change the behaviour of a program
that writes to memory addresses outside that data space which has been
allocated for its use?  I'm guessing that the answer will be "yes",
because one of the things an optimizer can do is reuse memory
addresses so that a use is found for an unused region.

>>By "miscompile" I understood "generate code that does something
>>different".  But now I see that for you "miscompile" doesn't mean
>>that.  It seems to mean "doesn't do any optimization that would
>>surprise me."
> 
> "Miscompile" means "generate code that behaves different from what
> the programmer intended" (while the compiler generates code as
> intended without optimization).

This is is hard for me to distinguish from "doesn't do any
optimization that would surprise me."

> Does a programmer intentionally write code in non-assembly language
> that depends on the exact timing?  I doubt it.  Do they
> intentionally write code that depends on particular values for
> uninitialized data?  Probably not that many.

What does intentionality have to do with any of this?  The writer of a
compiler cannot know what a programmer's intentions were, or what
side-effects of an implementation a programmer might have decided to
utilize.  Or is a compiler writer expected to guess what a "reasonable
programmer" might do?

Andrew.

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#28495

Fromalbert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst)
Date2014-02-17 12:28 +0000
Message-ID<53020082$0$9229$e4fe514c@dreader35.news.xs4all.nl>
In reply to#28459
In article <BYedna7sVMrCI2LPnZ2dnUVZ_rGdnZ2d@supernews.com>,
Andrew Haley  <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> wrote:
>Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>> Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>>>Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>>>> But for the platforms I work with, timing is influenced by so many
>>>> things (e.g., other processes polluting the caches and branch
>>>> predictors), that programmers do not write programs that rely on the
>>>> exact timings of code, and if they did, the programs would not work
>>>> anyway.
>>>
>>>I have certainly seen race conditions that were exposed when an
>>>optimization speeded up part of the code.
>>
>> Yes, can happen.
>>
>>>Of course, the compiler was blamed for "breaking the program", but
>>>all it did was make part of the program go faster.
>>
>> Well if a compiler's optimizer has miscompiled before, that's what one
>> tends to think of when an optimization changes the behaviour.
>
>There is a subset of programmers who reach for "compiler bug" as a
>first explanation whenever a program doesn't do what they want,
>especially when its behaviour changes when it is optimized.
>
>>>> But otherwise, yes, proper optimizations do not silently change the
>>>> behaviour of programs.
>>>
>>>> A more relevant case is reading uninitialized data.  That may lead to
>>>> one behaviour in one version of a Forth system and a different
>>>> behaviour in the next version, even if the optimizations in these
>>>> versions do not differ.  Again, if a program intentionally relies on
>>>> that, it is probably best of sticking with one version.
>>>
>>>So, a "proper optimization" is allowed to change the behaviour of a
>>>program that worked because uninitialized data had a particular value.
>>>Is that right or not?
>>
>> That's a judgement call, that's why I brought it up.
>
>What does this mean?  Is that right or not?
>
>>>But you said that:
>>>
>>>>>> A reliable compiler does not silently miscompile a program that
>>>>>> works perfectly fine on the previous version of the compiler.
>>
>> Yes.  And that's the attitude one should employ when writing an
>> optimizer.
>
>I'm trying to discover what this means.
>
>> There are some things that pretty much preclude optimization (and
>> also preclude most other changes in the compiler).  One example is
>> if the timing has to be kept the same as in the unoptimized case.
>> In this case it's obvious that the only option is not to optimize.
>> But the compiler already does that by not turning on optimization,
>> so an optimizer does not need to cater for that particular case.
>> The only problem with this is if the programmer is unaware that his
>> program depends on the exact timing (as in the case reported above).
>>
>> I think that depending on uninitialized data is pretty much in the
>> same category of things that preclude most changes in the compiler.
>
>I think so too.
>
>> But I might be wrong.
>
>Here's another question, to help me to understand your position: is a
>"proper optimization" allowed to change the behaviour of a program
>that writes to memory addresses outside that data space which has been
>allocated for its use?  I'm guessing that the answer will be "yes",
>because one of the things an optimizer can do is reuse memory
>addresses so that a use is found for an unused region.

The consequences are far-reaching. The compiler may assume the program
is correct. If it concludes that somewhere the program writes to
inaccessible memory, the next conclusion is that this code is unreachable.
By elimination dead code like this, an incorrect program may be
"optimised" out of existance.

<SNIP>

>
>What does intentionality have to do with any of this?  The writer of a
>compiler cannot know what a programmer's intentions were, or what
>side-effects of an implementation a programmer might have decided to
>utilize.  Or is a compiler writer expected to guess what a "reasonable
>programmer" might do?

To an extent yes. I've read accounts of optimiser writers who guess
whithin reason what mistakes are to expected of mediocre programmers,
and prevent a lot of service calls by doing so.

>
>Andrew.
-- 
Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS
Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters.
albert@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst

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#28498

Fromanton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Date2014-02-17 14:05 +0000
Message-ID<2014Feb17.150541@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>
In reply to#28459
Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>Here's another question, to help me to understand your position: is a
>"proper optimization" allowed to change the behaviour of a program
>that writes to memory addresses outside that data space which has been
>allocated for its use?  I'm guessing that the answer will be "yes",
>because one of the things an optimizer can do is reuse memory
>addresses so that a use is found for an unused region.

I don't follow your justification, but I tend to yes, because most
programmers don't do that intentinally, and because such behaviour
tends to be pretty fragile anyway, and will break on many changes, not
just turning on optimization; so if somebody does that intentionally,
their best course may be to change as little as possible anyway.

>>>By "miscompile" I understood "generate code that does something
>>>different".  But now I see that for you "miscompile" doesn't mean
>>>that.  It seems to mean "doesn't do any optimization that would
>>>surprise me."
>> 
>> "Miscompile" means "generate code that behaves different from what
>> the programmer intended" (while the compiler generates code as
>> intended without optimization).
>
>This is is hard for me to distinguish from "doesn't do any
>optimization that would surprise me."

It's not about you or me, but about the programmer who wrote the code.

Also, here are two examples of the difference:

1) A case where gcc performed a proper optimization that surprised me:
   It compiled

   if (*s1==*s2 && *s1!=0 && *s2!=0) ...

   into code equivalent to

   if (*s1==*s2 && *s1!=0) ...

   I found that surprising, but it did not change the behaviour, so
   it's a proper optimization.

2) A case where gcc miscompiled and it did not surprise me:  I wrote

   if (x>x+1) ...

   as a cell-size-independent and efficient way to check whether x is
   the smallest signed integer.  Now I had been burned by gcc
   miscompilation before, and checked what gcc did, and found that it
   indeed miscompiled this code: it left the whole if statement and
   the statements it controlled away.

>What does intentionality have to do with any of this?  The writer of a
>compiler cannot know what a programmer's intentions were, or what
>side-effects of an implementation a programmer might have decided to
>utilize.  Or is a compiler writer expected to guess what a "reasonable
>programmer" might do?

Yes, and be pretty conservative about it.

- anton
-- 
M. Anton Ertl  http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html
comp.lang.forth FAQs: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/forth/faq/toc.html
     New standard: http://www.forth200x.org/forth200x.html
   EuroForth 2013: http://www.euroforth.org/ef13/

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#28500

FromAndrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Date2014-02-17 09:49 -0600
Message-ID<tqednXgs9PDrsp_OnZ2dnUVZ_jqdnZ2d@supernews.com>
In reply to#28498
Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> writes:
>>Here's another question, to help me to understand your position: is a
>>"proper optimization" allowed to change the behaviour of a program
>>that writes to memory addresses outside that data space which has been
>>allocated for its use?  I'm guessing that the answer will be "yes",
>>because one of the things an optimizer can do is reuse memory
>>addresses so that a use is found for an unused region.
> 
> I don't follow your justification, but I tend to yes, because most
> programmers don't do that intentinally, and because such behaviour
> tends to be pretty fragile anyway, and will break on many changes, not
> just turning on optimization; so if somebody does that intentionally,
> their best course may be to change as little as possible anyway.
> 
>>>>By "miscompile" I understood "generate code that does something
>>>>different".  But now I see that for you "miscompile" doesn't mean
>>>>that.  It seems to mean "doesn't do any optimization that would
>>>>surprise me."
>>> 
>>> "Miscompile" means "generate code that behaves different from what
>>> the programmer intended" (while the compiler generates code as
>>> intended without optimization).
>>
>>This is is hard for me to distinguish from "doesn't do any
>>optimization that would surprise me."
> 
> It's not about you or me, but about the programmer who wrote the code.

What's the difference?  We're both programmers who writew code.

> Also, here are two examples of the difference:
> 
> 1) A case where gcc performed a proper optimization that surprised me:
>   It compiled
> 
>   if (*s1==*s2 && *s1!=0 && *s2!=0) ...
> 
>   into code equivalent to
> 
>   if (*s1==*s2 && *s1!=0) ...
> 
>   I found that surprising, but it did not change the behaviour, so
>   it's a proper optimization.
> 
> 2) A case where gcc miscompiled and it did not surprise me:  I wrote
> 
>   if (x>x+1) ...
> 
>   as a cell-size-independent and efficient way to check whether x is
>   the smallest signed integer.  Now I had been burned by gcc
>   miscompilation before, and checked what gcc did, and found that it
>   indeed miscompiled this code: it left the whole if statement and
>   the statements it controlled away.

But how is anyone to determine what is a correct optimization, except
by asking you for your opinion in each case?  You don't offer any
specification for what you require.  You just declare people who don't
share your intuitive understanding of programming language semantics
to be wrong.

>>What does intentionality have to do with any of this?  The writer of a
>>compiler cannot know what a programmer's intentions were, or what
>>side-effects of an implementation a programmer might have decided to
>>utilize.  Or is a compiler writer expected to guess what a "reasonable
>>programmer" might do?
> 
> Yes, and be pretty conservative about it.

But "pretty conservative" is not a specification.  That's my core
point.  There is no way to turn what you suggest into a specification
that can be implemented.  Somehow the compiler author has to guess
about the knowledge level of the programmer.  It is an impossible
task, because the beginner is surprised by pretty much everything that
a compiler does.  So, a compiler author would have to guess about the
knowledge level of their target audience, and aim low.

Andrew.

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#28501

FromBernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de>
Date2014-02-17 19:06 +0100
Message-ID<ldtj28$72j$1@online.de>
In reply to#28500
Andrew Haley wrote:

> Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>> Yes, and be pretty conservative about it.
> 
> But "pretty conservative" is not a specification.  That's my core
> point.  There is no way to turn what you suggest into a specification
> that can be implemented.  Somehow the compiler author has to guess
> about the knowledge level of the programmer.  It is an impossible
> task, because the beginner is surprised by pretty much everything that
> a compiler does.  So, a compiler author would have to guess about the
> knowledge level of their target audience, and aim low.

My core point is that you, as compiler writer, are responsible for the 
specification, you need to document it and stay with what you documented.  
As a rule, you have an underlying machine model (e.g. two's complement 
signed arithmetics) for statements like x<x-1, and for this machine modell, 
the statement makes sense and delivers a predictable result on overflow.

The problem with taking a weasel-worded standard like the C standard is that 
the standard can't tell you if the system is two's complement, one's 
complement or even something else.  That's ok, though a standard team should 
realize when one representation has won: The one's complement dinosaurs are 
extinct.  Then you can tighten up your spec.

Take for example the separate/mixed FP stack in ANS Forth: It was next to 
impossible to write portable software for both cases, so we evaluated how 
many mixed FP stacks there are, and decided that we label the separate stack 
as recommended default.  This means if you produce a quality implementation, 
you will have a separate FP stack.  This is now non-ambiguous.

If you take GCC's approach on ANS Forth, you would deliberately miscompile 
all code that wouldn't produce identical results on mixed and separate FP 
stacks, because that code "is obviously non-standard" and therefore broken.  
This is your attitude.

A statement like if(x<x-1) works only if you have a non-throwing wraparound 
overflow behavior.  So this has an evironmental restriction to non-throwing 
wraparound overflow.  What does x86 do on overflows?  Yes: it doesn't throw 
an exception, and it wraps around.  Fine, so now you know what your system 
does.  You have to stick to that behavior when you optimize!

C is a relatively small programming language, it has few types (integer in 
two signness flavors and up to 6 sizes, with bit being the smallest), float 
in three sizes, pointers), a few storage types (local variables, thread-
local memory, thread-shared memory with atomic operations), and the 
operations on those are not too many, too.  It takes perhaps a day or so to 
write down a formal VM specification on all those operations.  That would be 
my starting point when I wrote a compiler suite: define a common, sane VM.  
And then, you can prove that your optimizations only improve speed, but 
don't alter semantics.

Java does this kind of things (and that's one of the good things about 
Java).  Ada does this, too.  As your compiler suite has a Java and an Ada 
backend, you need to do this anyhow.  Your main competitor, llvm, does 
specify a VM, too.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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