I wish I could say that more often

hugi · on May 20, 2014

No you don't :)

dllthomas · on May 20, 2014

More often per unit of bug, maybe (... maybe.). No more often per unit of time or unit of code, please!

yaur · on May 20, 2014

maybe try compiling stuff with GCC 2.96 until you get that out of your system. I'm personally very happy that its been years since some weird behavior turned out to be a compiler bug.

LeonM · on May 20, 2014

Believe me, you really don't!

teebot · on May 20, 2014

you're right it must be really tricky to spot and work around it but just the tought of blaming the compiler not sloppy programming is amusing

mikeash · on May 20, 2014

Having found way too many bugs in the OS and compiler, it's amusing at first, but then gets tiresome. It's way easier to fix a bug when you're the one at fault, so any time something looks like it might be in the compiler or OS, I end up fervently hoping that it's not.

qntmfred · on May 20, 2014

there is something oddly satisfying about stumbling upon compiler bugs. here's one i discovered a while back http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11303732/x86-vs-anycpu-re...