Acknowlegements: surely John Gilmore's one-bit fix was proverbial,

not apocryphal.

apoc-ry-phal \-fel\ adj
(1590)
1 often cap: of or resembling the Apocrypha
2: of doubtful authenticity: SPURIOUS
syn see FICTITIOUS

pro-ver-bi-al \pre-'ver-be^--el\ adj
(1548)
1: of, relating to, or resembling a proverb
2: that has become a proverb or byword: commonly spoken of
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Roland Pesch
1994-01-31 20:47:07 +00:00
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@ -6976,8 +6976,7 @@ updated the 68k machine description so that Motorola's opcodes always produced
fixed-size instructions (e.g. @code{jsr}), while synthetic instructions fixed-size instructions (e.g. @code{jsr}), while synthetic instructions
remained shrinkable (@code{jbsr}). John fixed many bugs, including true tested remained shrinkable (@code{jbsr}). John fixed many bugs, including true tested
cross-compilation support, and one bug in relaxation that took a week and cross-compilation support, and one bug in relaxation that took a week and
required the apocryphal one-bit fix. required the proverbial one-bit fix.
@c FIXME ``apocryphal'' surely wrong. What's meant?
Ian Lance Taylor of Cygnus Support merged the Motorola and MIT syntax for the Ian Lance Taylor of Cygnus Support merged the Motorola and MIT syntax for the
68k, completed support for some COFF targets (68k, i386 SVR3, and SCO Unix), 68k, completed support for some COFF targets (68k, i386 SVR3, and SCO Unix),