Re: Catastrophic compiler errors

journeyman@compilerguru.com (journeyman)
7 Apr 2002 22:43:51 -0400

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From: journeyman@compilerguru.com (journeyman)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 7 Apr 2002 22:43:51 -0400
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References: 02-04-035
Keywords: errors, practice
Posted-Date: 07 Apr 2002 22:43:50 EDT

On 6 Apr 2002 23:40:24 -0500, Mark Lacey \[MSFT\] <mlacey@microsoft.com> wrote:
>I'm wondering if anybody can point me to any information regarding cases
>where buggy compilers (in particular buggy optimizers & code generators)
>caused a catastrophic failure of some kind.


Nothing revealed on a quick browse of Peter G. Neumann's summary:
http://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/illustrative.html


If anything as visible as the kind of examples listed ever happened,
I'm certain it would have shown up on comp.risks. Of course, there's
always a first time...


Morris

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