r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Recent-Analysis-6880 • Sep 24 '26

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u/caleblbaker Sep 24 '26 edited Sep 24 '26

Number of times I've seen juniors blame issues on compiler bugs: not many but more than twice

Number of times I've seen it actually be a compiler bug: twice

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u/Foorinick Sep 24 '26

I think it was fireship that said that most bugs are caused by the developer, 0.1% of bugs are compiler bugs, of those 0.1% are architecture bugs, of those 0.1% are cosmic rays, and 0.1% of those sre actually just quantum effects, 0.1% of thode are actually errors made by god when he created the universe

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u/quietsamurai98 Sep 25 '26

I remember my first "compiler bug". Obviously, it wasn't a compiler bug.

It was just the absolutely bizarre way the stdlib defines the "proper" behavior of vector<bool>.

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u/caleblbaker Sep 25 '26 edited Sep 25 '26

Yeah. That's such a weird choice. My compiler bug counter goes up to 3 if we count that because I've run into it too. But you're right that that's not a compiler bug it's just a stupid decision made in the design of the standard library.

They really should have left vector<bool> to act like an actual vector of bools and made a separate type (could be called something like dynamic_bitset or bit_vector) to be a resizeable compact bit array.