I have found bugs in Gcc, and reported them. I check on them once every few years to see if anything at all has happened on any of them. It seems worth distinguishing code-generation bugs from other compiler bugs. Most of my Gcc bugs are not code-generation bugs.
Back in the '80s, the C++ compiler was `cfront`. We spent half of every day bisecting source files to identify the line that would crash the compiler, and doctor it to step around the bug.
People who used to use the Lucid compilers said they were happy when Lucid flopped, because from then on their compiler only had known bugs, instead of a new crop every few months.
Back in the '80s, the C++ compiler was `cfront`. We spent half of every day bisecting source files to identify the line that would crash the compiler, and doctor it to step around the bug.
People who used to use the Lucid compilers said they were happy when Lucid flopped, because from then on their compiler only had known bugs, instead of a new crop every few months.
Things are better, nowadays, with compilers.