Insight into the DMD back-end

[Walter Bright]

Stephan wrote:
> On 07.12.2010 11:52, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Stephan wrote:
>>> I often ran into this strange behaviour when using -O optimization
>>> without knowing where it came from and it is so disturbing when i
>>> think of people newly getting interested in D making the experience
>>> when trying to compare it with C/C++ and then finding out the
>>> optimization makes strange things. I think out of a image perspective
>>> such bugs must be high priority, ESPECIALLY if it lies there for
>>> 25years already.
>>
>> I've had probably 10,000 bug reports over the years and this has never
>> appeared as one before now. Thank you for reporting it.
> 
> Possibly because it was so hard to nail down and reproduce in a simple 
> testcase. Slightly changing the code made it disappear every now and 
> then again.

I do appreciate the small test case, too.