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Well, I can imagine a program having something where new C comments ( // ) makes it not divide, like:

a = 5 //* junk here */ 2 ;

I'm sure there are ioccc or underhanded C contest entries doing this to make code work differently on compilers based on if // is starting a comment line or not.

Sure it is an ugly way of writing stuff and you'd be hard pressed to find lots of real world traps like this, but when/if you did have code that "suddenly" miscompiles you might actually think your old code with an old compiler did work, and a new compiler for "the same" language breaks your program. I don't think everyone code base should need full rewrites ever time a new compiler comes out.



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