Author: Jon Dart
Date: 16:02:30 08/07/99
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I agree. Several years ago, I used to work for a compiler company (which shall remain nameless). They made very highly optimizing compilers which were sold for large sums to major corporations working on very large programming projects. At any given time, there were usually over 1000 bugs reported against the compiler. Some were serious problems, and a few were design flaws that would be very complex and expensive to fix. The compiler itself was so complex that it was not uncommon to fix one bug and have the fix eventually turn up as the cause of some other problem (yes, they had regression tests, but you can't catch everything that way). With respect to gcc, you can look at the newsgroup gnu.gcc.bugs. This is a pretty good compiler now but it seems that there are still quite a few problems with it, even allowing that some of the reported problems may be "user error." --Jon
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