"Debian developer Martin Michlmayr has been working on finding problems with the GNU Compiler Collection 4.1 release and code in the Debian archives. Michlmayr's research has had some interesting results, and provides a wealth of information about the quality of GCC 4.1 and MIPS code in the Debian archives.
"Michlmayr's work was sponsored by Google and carried out at the University of Cambridge as part of his research into quality management in free software projects..."