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3 stories tagged compiler-bugs, newest first.

Screenshot of github.com: 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker (github.com)

723 points by formerly_proven 13 days ago | 406 comments

A rust-lang/rust GitHub issue reporting that a struct's lifetime requirements can be bypassed via covariant field assignment, an unsoundness bug in the borrow checker.

rust borrow-checker soundness lifetimes

Screenshot of mastodon.social: Two ARM64-specific compiler optimization bugs, in GCC 15/16 and Rust, hit curl

Two ARM64-specific compiler optimization bugs, in GCC 15/16 and Rust, hit curl (mastodon.social)

44 points by torutofu 20 days ago | 5 comments

Mastodon post by Daniel Stenberg noting curl hit two arm64-specific compiler optimization bugs in GCC 15/16 and Rust, linking a GitHub issue.

curl gcc rust arm64

Screenshot of blog.cloudflare.com: We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler

We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler (blog.cloudflare.com)

799 points by jgrahamc 1 year ago | 130 comments

Cloudflare blog post by Thea Heinen describing how the team discovered and diagnosed a bug in the Go compiler's arm64 code generation.

go arm64 compiler-bugs cloudflare

#compiler-bugs on Hacker News

11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker(github.com)

Two ARM64-specific compiler optimization bugs, in GCC 15/16 and Rust, hit curl(mastodon.social)

We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler(blog.cloudflare.com)

11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker (github.com)

Two ARM64-specific compiler optimization bugs, in GCC 15/16 and Rust, hit curl (mastodon.social)

We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler (blog.cloudflare.com)