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Comment by jimbokun

8 hours ago

Yes, compilers are a good candidate for verification through thorough testing. If a comprehensive test suite passes, reviewing every line of code isn’t so important.

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ben-schaaf  4 hours ago

That's why Anthropics C compiler worked so well; because they had gcc's huge repository of tests to lean on. Oh wait...

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