[LLVMdev] C as used/implemented in practice: analysis of responses

[Russell Wallace]

Why do you say spin? I'm not making any of this up; there have been
published cases of bugs creeping into code that had worked correctly for
years, without any change to the code itself, because a new version of GCC
started applying a monkey's paw optimisation. That's the sort of thing that
prompted the survey that started this thread.

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Tim Northover <t.p.northover at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > But having programs miscompiled so that they silently fail, in many cases
> > starting only years after the code in question was written, is very much
> not
> > okay. That's far worse than documented portability problems.
>
> When given a certain spin...
>
> Tim.
>
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