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anon1385 on April 5, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Compilers in OpenBSD (2013)

The idea that older versions of GCC didn't have as many bugs doesn't hold up to any scrutiny: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1036

tedunangst on April 5, 2015 [–]

Not all compiler bugs are equal. Miod has a pretty good sense of which compilers exhibited the worst bugs in practice and the effort required to fix/workaround them.

see also http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1036#comment-12057

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