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Re:“What the Hardware Does” Is Not What Your Program Does: U... by ralfjung on Monday July 15, 2019 @08:03AM (#20439984)
Hm, good point about the bitfields. The paper I cite [1] actually talks specifically about bitfields as their precise semantics in the presence of "poison"-style uninitialized memory is not entirely clear yet.

[1]: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~regehr/papers/undef-pldi17.pdf

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