On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 00:58:29 UTC, uri wrote:
On Sunday, 14 December 2014 at 16:44:09 UTC, ddj wrote:
On Saturday, 13 December 2014 at 23:02:52 UTC, Mike Parker
wrote:
On 12/13/2014 10:55 PM, ddj wrote:
But so many issues and bug fixes scares me from using it.
That's just the wrong way to look at it. Take a look at the
bug list for gcc, any of the Java compilers, or clang. Are
you afraid to use them as well?
Maybe, but gcc and java compilers have long history of stable
releases and many programs and libraries written. Clang has
standards to implement and! static analyzer.
As Mike said, look at the bug tracker history for these
projects. Even with all those stable releases there were always
lots of open bugs and today in GCC 4.9 there are issues:
http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/kernel/1407.3/00650.html
We use GCC 4.8 at my work where we develop class II and class
III health-care devices - A life support system is class
III...how well do you trust GCC? :-).
Joking aside we design for failure and have a 4 year
verification process that weeds out critical bugs in our code
and the compiler.
Cheers,
uri
Aren't you using certified compilers?
It was my understanding that for life support systems only
certified compilers are allowed.
..
Paulo
