johnl@ima.ima.isc.com (John R. Levine) (05/30/89)
I have the following problem in GCC 1.34 for the 80386: If you multiply
two char values producing a short, the compiler aborts. I see that there is
a table entry particularly for this case, and that on most other machines
the table entry is missing, so the compiler widens the arguments before
multiplying. I commented out the table entry on the 386, and it works, and
the code is nearly as good as what should have been generated. Has anyone
made this case work?
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