My guess is that a fairly large percentage of the people who complain about "compiler bugs" or "unexpected behavior" have made no attempt to research the problem or actually read the manual. It seems that the standard method used by most people is to ask on-line or complain before making any investigatory attempt to research the problem.

I participate a lot in a Visual Basic forum and the above is borne out over and over again every day, despite many many available resources of documentation. I can see this also happens here and at other forums such as Keil's and SiLabs' forums.

So even if you had the most incredible tools with the most squeaky clean and perfect documentation you are still going to see people failing to read and research before posting and asking questions. In the 8051 world I'll suggest that this phenomenon applies equally to people using assembly language or a high level language.

Michael Karas