Talk:Embedded Systems/Embedded System Basics

Where it talks about compiler bugs early on in this chapter. I find that hard to believe.

A compiler bug? Really. Prove it. --71.206.18.120 (talk) 19:22, 2 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree that "On a major embedded project, at some point you will almost always find a compiler bug of some sort." is overstating the case. Across all my projects the compilers I've ever used, there has been only once when a program, that I intended to do something useful, failed because of a compiler bug. (I've long since lost count of the many, many times a program failed because of a typo or other bug I introduced).
 * On the other hand, every compiler I've ever used has had bugs. It's easy to prove that compiler bugs exist: ; ; ; ; ; ; etc.
 * I doubt that a C compiler without bugs exists. Fortunately, the vast majority of those bugs involve obscure cases that I've been lucky enough not to trip over. --DavidCary (talk) 22:57, 18 November 2008 (UTC)