Can GCC (or another compiler) inline or optimize a function call mistakenly and generate a program that produces wrong results?

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Nope not possible since all the compilers are well tested. So, definitely the wrong results could be because of some logic error or a bug that is implicit in nature. Check for things in your program that makes your program does anything implicitly, thats the most prominent cause of such behavior.
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Nope not possible since all the compilers are well tested. So, definitely the wrong results could be because of some logic error or a bug that is implicit in nature. Check for things in your program thatmakesyour program does anything implicitly, thats the most prominent cause of such behavior. read less
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