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onlyrealcuzzo • yesterday at 11:37 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Encountering something that seems incorrect, and proving something is a bug and not just YOUR user error, AND reproducing it minimally - turns out to not be easy when it's a low-level compiler issue, and YOU'RE not an expert, especially when it relates to Dwarf tables...

Typically, any time you think you've found a compiler error, you're using it wrong...


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nvme0n1p1 • today at 12:01 AM

If it's a real bug, you can just report what you know and leave it at that. You don't need to embellish it with random guesses about a root cause.

Okay: "I compile this input and the linker crashes."

Not okay: "I compile this input and the linker crashes. Also here's 10 paragraphs of slop about dwarf tables, which I can't even evaluate the accuracy of since I'm not an expert."

> Typically, any time you think you've found a compiler error, you're using it wrong...

Yes, if you can't figure out if it's a bug, the bug tracker is the wrong place to get help. Ask in a community forum instead.

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