• MangoCats ( MangoCats@feddit.it ) 
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    3 days ago

    which the programmer can fully rely on.

    Most of the time, today. Mid 90s I was constantly checking compiler output for bugs, and finding them. Early 90s the compiler bugs were finding me, particularly in Borland Turbo C++. I turned off the linker optimizer in 1992 and couldn’t turn it back on until 2008 without getting difficult to identify bugs.