I warn anybody before using ARM Keil 4.13a. It generates defective code. I have spent several hours with debugging a code that has been already worked. The problem affects local variables of functions and passing arguments. Code has been wrongly compiled without any optimization. I have no courage and time to test optimizations.
I also encourage Keil not to publish Keil 4.13a any more.
Keil 4.12 seems to be OK.
Unfortunately, without any specific details, your accusation is just about worthless!
"mis-compiled pointer to variable to a different location"
What do you mean by that: was the pointer itself placed in a "wrong location", or did the pointer's value point to a "wrong location"?
"passed completely different pointer"
What do you mean by that?
"any analysis would take me lot of time"
Yes, of course - but without that proper analysis, it's just speculation...
#"passed completely different pointer" #What do you mean by that?
When I debugged a code and I let Keil to show &c inside watching and I saw some address. When I have seen contents of "p" it was different address.
The "c" was not changed after returning, so it means that some different memory area has been rewritten.
I am using Keil from 4.10 and I have not observed this issue until 4.13.