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What a silly premise. I find bugs in compilers all the time. I don't like these absolute statements, the industry loves them; I don't think they are useful.

Also, the hardware is not always right. I used to write drivers and, if anything, the hardware is always wrong. Hardware is full of bugs, drivers work hard to hide these bugs from the user.

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So at the bottom of the article the author points to bugzillas for GCC and LLVM, and points out that compilers actually do have bugs. It feels like an admission that the title is really just for attracting clicks, and that the first para of the article could've just been ignored or dropped.

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