I have yet to see a bug free compiler.  Compilers are complicated things.  New
optimizations get added, and sometimes incorrectly used.  In the case of the PIC
world, new MCU variations are added that cause a change in the compiler.

If you haven't found a bug, you haven't looked hard enough.  Look at Microsoft's
bug list for the latest revision of Microsoft C.  That's been around since the
1980's.

-Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wagner Lipnharski [mailto:wagner@ustr.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 7:42 AM
> To: PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu
> Subject: Re: Question: C vs Asm
>
>
> I wonder, and would like somebody to explain, how you can
> still get bugs
> from a C compiler that is years old...  we are not talking
> about a huge
> software platform.  Is this some kind of beta test software?   I never
> get any compiling error from the assembler compilers I use for years,
> not a single one, so I think it is a steady and fully
> debugged software.