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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 1703 days ago
Well there are still quite a lot of compiler bugs. I personally have open issues going back as far as 2018. Knowing the compiler has bugs and that new ones are constantly being discovered makes debugging a pain because you have a lot less confidence that the problem is your code. I have many times blamed the compiler for my mistakes, something I've almost never done with C.
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> I have many times blamed the compiler for my mistakes, something I've almost never done with C.

Early on, I remember dealing with lots of bugs in C compilers in the mid and late 80s. It takes time.