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Re:What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behav... by lmm on Thursday January 05, 2017 @07:12AM (#13326505)
It wouldn't improve benchmark performance, which is what C compiler writers care about. And at this point in time any programmer who wants that kind of behaviour has probably moved on from C.
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Re:What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behav... by lomnakkus on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @07:33PM (#13378855)
Well, that and undefined behavior sometimes would require absurd amounts of runtime checking (eg. on signed bit shifts, etc.).
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