From: fortunatus on
On Jun 14, 3:34 pm, Raymond Toy <toy.raym...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> There was even one example where the C compiler made spectacularly bad
> code.  I only needed 6 pointer registers (the arch has 8), but the
> compiler decided to use only one or two and spilled and reloaded them
> from the stack for each use.  Yay!

That's one of the worst compiler stories I've heard since 1979! How
awful!