Funniest Compiler Bug Report

The award for funniest compiler bug report title is: "Implementation of memcpy is optimized away as a call to memcpy"

A social media post jokes about a compiler bug report titled “Implementation of memcpy is optimized away as a call to memcpy.” The humor comes from the absurdly circular wording: an implementation of the memory-copy function is supposedly optimized into a call to that same function, suggesting the compiler has done nothing useful. It is a reaction meme for programmers discussing compilers, optimization, and ridiculous bug reports. EN: A social media post jokes about a compiler bug report titled “Implementation of memcpy is optimized away as a call to memcpy.” The humor comes from the absurdly circular wording: an implementation of the memory-copy function is supposedly optimized into a call to that same function, suggesting the compiler has done nothing useful. It is a reaction meme for programmers discussing compilers, optimization, and ridiculous bug reports.

• @memetutorial / 16420 2022-07-01