Yes, the older and more popular a compiler is, the less likely it is to have bugs. The buggiest compiler I ever used was a C compiler that ran on a PC and gene

Yes, the older and more popular a compiler is, the less likely it is to have bugs. The buggiest compiler I ever used was a C compiler that ran on a PC and generated code for the 68000 processor. We seemed to trip over something about once a month.