On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 01:53:00PM +0100, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
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> It's therefore not the responsibility of the programmer to check whether the
> result of optimization is correct. Therefore it's not the optimizations that
> are source of bugs, but bugs in GCC.

But if you write a program and the user finds it full of bugs, are they
going to care that you can say that it's GCC's fault? The burden falls
on the developers to make code that works, including working around
problems in the compiler. Sad, but true.

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