I'm not criticizing KEIL's product any more than any other. It's just that software written by humans always has bugs. Software to compile what's by other humans has the bugs written by the compiler's authors as well as the guys who write the HLL code.

It's not specific to Keil, or to 'C', or to any other compiler.

So far, I've only produced one program that was infinitely powerful, i.e. could do anything that any other program could do, in that environment, yet was totally bug free ... and, not really too much of a surprise to me, it had been independently developed by others. Moreover, it wasn't written in HLL, hence was infinitely short, hence could have no bugs. It also didn't operate under an OS that constantly got it's tits in the way (Windows). It was for CP/M. I can give you details if you like.

If you hang around the KEIL discussion group for any length of time, I'm sure you can hear plenty about "bugs", those being inconsistencies with the anticipated behavior of the compiler. If they're undocumented or incorrectly documented, in the printed manuals, the are, indeed, bugs.

RE