According to the author of the second link I gave (here it is again): https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-subtle-bug-you-have-had-to-fix-as-a-computer-progr

According to the author of the second link I gave (here it is again): https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-subtle-bug-you-have-had-to-fix-as-a-computer-programmer/answer/Tom-Lowe-34 https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-subtle-bug-you-have-h... The problem was that the loop itself was altered, rather than that the function returned and then that somehow caused an infinite loop. > I'm not aware of any compiler that does that, but it's something I could see happening, and the developers would have no reason to "fix" it, because it's perfectly up to spec. This is where we disagree.