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		comex on June 29, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anatomy of a Compiler Bug Nice article. But I wish it had gotten into an explanation of the actual bug in LLVM's code. Anyone have a bug number?

mikeash on June 30, 2013 [–]

I wanted to get into that as well, but ran out of brainpower. This is supposedly the revision that fixes the bug:

http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-...

Would love to hear your conclusions about what the ultimate cause was if you get that far.

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