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Re:What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behav... by lmm on Thursday January 05, 2017 @09:26AM (#13327278)
> C is dang near as close to the hardware as you can get without touching it

Not really true in the context of the optimizations done by modern C compilers (e.g. autovectorization).

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Re:What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behav... by qwertyuiop924 on Thursday January 05, 2017 @10:06AM (#13327602)
In some ways. But, as I discussed (dragonwriter brought it up) in a cousin comment, C still does direct hardware access better than most other 3GLs. And that matters sometimes.
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