Re: Debug optimized code; Now: How many compiler bugs have you seen?

Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:32:41 +0000 (UTC)

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From: Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:32:41 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Stack Usenet News Service
References: 08-09-076 08-09-105 08-09-110 08-09-115 08-09-119 08-09-128
Keywords: errors
Posted-Date: 26 Sep 2008 07:48:28 EDT

On 2008-09-25, Damian Thomas <damian.thomas@unisys.com> wrote:
> I support many compilers right now. Many programmers come to me
> claiming there must be some bug in the compiler that is preventing
> their program from working. Many times it's the user program that was
> incorrect. In a few rare cases, the hardware is incorrect.


Hehe, and OS. I can remember being flabbergasted why the same floating
point code wouldn't run on NetBSD on ppc603 while it ran on Linux on
the same CPU.


Turned out Linux had a handler for unaligned access (something the 603
FPU can't handle in some cases), and NetBSD not.


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