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
remained shrinkable (@code{jbsr}). John fixed many bugs, including true tested
cross-compilation support, and one bug in relaxation that took a week and
required the apocryphal one-bit fix.
@c FIXME ``apocryphal'' surely wrong. What's meant?
required the proverbial one-bit fix.
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),