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> imagine if you'd spent countless hours getting to the bottom of an obscure bug that turned out to be a completely bone-headed [...] problem outside your cont
by IvyMike 12y ago
> imagine if you'd spent countless hours getting to the bottom of an obscure bug that turned out to be a completely bone-headed [...] problem outside your control
I imagine everyone on HN has been in this situation many times during their careers.
- smcl 12y agoYep definitely, but compiler bugs are a particularly painful\opaque breed of problem. In the overwhelming majority of cases the safe\sensible way to debug an issue (if you don't want to turn yourself slowly insane) is to take compiler correctness as a universal constant. When this turns out not to be the case it's infuriating. Perhaps this assumption is made in error but as I said it's a reasonable one to make.