Back in the day Red Hat decided to ship GCC 2.96 which was unstable and not meant for general release. I've seen a handful of compiler bugs but all (or almost

Back in the day Red Hat decided to ship GCC 2.96 which was unstable and not meant for general release. I've seen a handful of compiler bugs but all (or almost all) of them can be traced back to that decision, but because that happened right when I started writing software full time it took a bit before I started trusting the compiler.