Re:The Problem with Friendly C
by to3m on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @10:19PM
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Well I submit that as a simple question of quality of implementation, implementers should try their hardest to go for the something that behaves "in a documented manner characteristic of the platform"! But instead, they seem to pick something else. And I claim that this is not helpful to their users, who would be far better served by the characteristic-of-the-platform option.
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It's really friction between incompatible visions of C: Some want it to be a portable wrapper over assembler with predictable semantics, others want it to run as fast as possible.
Like it or not, the standard leaves the doorway open for the latter group to come up with increasingly aggressive optimization, only limited by their ingenuity.