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by gambogi 4090 days ago
Here's a link explaining why they haven't switched yet: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=137530560232232
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anon1385 4090 days ago
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
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tedunangst 4090 days ago
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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tedunangst 4090 days ago
Well done.
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zer0rest 4090 days ago
It is really worrying because it seems to be the trend with everything, from web browsers, compilers, all the way down to kernels.
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