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Re:Undefined behavior in C is a reading error by tsimionescu on Friday May 21, 2021 @01:29AM (#27230810)
To some extent, though the committee has not moved to make this definition explicit in the standard (UB = behavior the compiler is free to assume can't happen), for one reason or another.
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Re:Undefined behavior in C is a reading error by pjmlp on Friday May 21, 2021 @03:56AM (#27231535)
For the same reason that it came into the standard in first place.

No compiler vendor wanted to give up their own C variant "features".

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