> if you were to say to me "I found the issue, the compiler isn't correctly handling if/else statements" Then my first thought would be about your medication not about the compiler

And yet, it happened :)

And the senior engineers at the company looked at it and confirmed it was a compiler bug. Their best guess was that something about that part of the code was putting the compiler in a funny state, causing it to skip that particular `else` branch.

We reported it to Microsoft, but never heard anything back.