True, it is a case of severe bad luck. But these are even worse than normal bugs: Some minor change in an unrelated part of the code triggers a cascade of diff

True, it is a case of severe bad luck. But these are even worse than normal bugs: Some minor change in an unrelated part of the code triggers a cascade of different inlining decisions, and now a comparison is silently returning wrong answers in a very specific edge case. Another variant is having x as an int. It is supposed to truncate the int on assignement, but instead it simply dumps the high bits in the alignement. As the saying goes: Working code > crashing code > silent corruption.