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tangential question: are there still compiler bugs?

• dom96 9y ago
  Of course, all software has bugs :)
  • wyager 9y ago
    This is not true, and shouldn't be used as a lazy excuse to write bad software. There is absolutely software that is entirely free of bugs; it just takes formal methods to get there for software of any reasonable complexity.
    • webkike 9y ago
      You can never however guarantee that a program will run free of errors. Hardware is faulty and not always in ways that are human caused: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_memory
    • dom96 9y ago
      Sure there is. But in practice most compilers I know of contain multiple bugs. The main difference between the compilers is how many users these bugs affect.
    • deleted 9y ago
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