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At my first job, it actually was a compiler error, and I'm not sure if my manager ever believed me. We were using an internal gcc fork and cross-compiling, so w

At my first job, it actually was a compiler error, and I'm not sure if my manager ever believed me. We were using an internal gcc fork and cross-compiling, so who knows where the bug was, but the compiler team got back to me. Jump tables were sometimes broken, and we had to add a switch to disable them. Not the right lesson to learn for a first job.

amluto 2y ago
For anyone who worked in embedded programming in the bad old days of proprietary compilers, it sometimes felt like the compiler working correctly was the common case. One of my first jobs involved programming a smallish, embeddedish, ruggedized computer in C. IIRC I wasted several hours on a bug once before realizing that it was a compiler issue and I needed to try arbitrarily rearranging the buggy function until it generated code that at least appeared to work.