Comment by fragmede
1 day ago
We can tell you weren't around for the advent of compilers. To be fair, neither was I since the UNIX c compiler came out in '68 and was by far not the first compiler. Modern comilers you can make that claim about, but early compilers weren't.
All compilers have bugs. Any loss of semantics during compilation would be considered a bug. In order to do that, the source and target language need to be structured and specified. I wasn't around in the 60s either, but I think that hasn't changed.
I've been programming since 6502/6510 assembly language and all compilers I've used were deterministic (which isn't the same thing as being bug free or producing the correct output for a given input).
Which early compilers were nondeterministic?