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Nope, even mature compilers are buggy. I find it amusing how often compiler authors have to workaround bugs in other compilers. See: http://search.gmane.org/?q

Nope, even mature compilers are buggy. I find it amusing how often compiler authors have to workaround bugs in other compilers. See: http://search.gmane.org/?query=MSVC+2012&author=&group=gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.cvs&sort=date&DEFAULTOP=and http://search.gmane.org/?query=MSVC+2012&author=&group=gmane... I don't mean to pick on MSVC and many of those are not-yet-implemented issues, it is just the easiest to search for. I've found (and even fixed a few) enough bugs in LLVM/Clang to realize that no compiler is perfect or even close! =)

foxhill 12y ago
well, of course they can be buggy, they are written by humans, after all :) but in my time as a programmer, i think i've seen one bug that was a genuine compiler bug. and this was in floating point arithmetic optimisations. llvm/clang, well, i'd hazard to call them mature (even though apple insists on doing so).