Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!shelby!Portia!armin From: armin@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Ronald Mayer) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Bugs in PC compilers Summary: Does [should?] anyone here really care? Message-ID: <2530@Portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 26 May 89 21:30:16 GMT Sender: Ronald Mayer Reply-To: armin@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Ronald Mayer) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 19 Over time I've come across a number of bugs in C compilers for the IBM PC. [1 in Microsoft C 3.0, a few in MicroSoft C 4.0, and a 3 in Quick C 1.0, and 1 bug from Quick C that also causes problems in Microsoft C 5.1] These problems include crashing the compiler, wrong printf formats, and errors in evaluating things like (i>0) in while loops. Do people in this news-group care, or would posting problems like this be unnecessary clutter wasting bandwidth here. Personally, I always found the best way to deal with these problems was to call up Microsoft or send them a letter. This seems to produce faster, better and more accurate results than posting here, and it bothers far fewer people, but if people here find this kind of thing interesting, I'll post them here. -Ron Mayer armin@portia.stanford.edu