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It's not sarcasm.

We've all accepted that code-generation has been required and accepted for decades.



Code generation (by compiler) has one major difference: it's deterministic.


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 500+ of them.


That's not what "deterministic" means.


Not sure what your point is here since wrong code doesn't mean non-deterministic. How many of these yield different results with the same input and architecture?




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