Insight into the DMD back-end

[Stephan]

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.