[zephen]

According to the author of the second link I gave (here it is again):

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-subtle-bug-you-have-h...

The problem was that the loop itself was altered, rather than that the function returned and then that somehow caused an infinite loop.

> I'm not aware of any compiler that does that, but it's something I could see happening, and the developers would have no reason to "fix" it, because it's perfectly up to spec.

This is where we disagree.