This is a post about a serious bug I turned up in the Microsoft C++ compilers that target CLI (both Managed C++ and C++/CLI). One of the key concepts in software engineering is Design by Contract.  Design by Contract boils down to “say what you do and do what you say.”  Essentially, when I make a semantic definition, I would like it to ...

Michael Tiemann wrote this retrospective about working on GCC in 1987.  It’s an interesting look back on some of the aspects of change that gcc wrought.  I share some of his experience.  In 1992 or so, I was working on a PostScript laser printer for Adobe that was based on the Motorola 68000.  It was meant to be a low-cost ...