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Comment by petcat

> compiler is deterministic and has a set of rules that can be understood.

Here are the reported miscompilation bugs in GCC so far in 2026. The ones labeled "wrong-code".

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?chfield=%5BBug%20cr...

I count 121 of them. It appears that code-generation is not as deterministic as you seem to think it is.

parent petcat 7 months ago

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