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Re:Learning that you can use unions in C for grouping things... by jjnoakes on Monday August 02, 2021 @01:02AM (#28033091)
> All undefined behaviour is well defined for each compiler

This is not true.

> what it really means is implementation defined

Implementation-defined behavior is a thing in the standard and is separate from undefined behavior.

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Re:Learning that you can use unions in C for grouping things... by midjji on Monday August 02, 2021 @03:26PM (#28041458)
What is referred to as implementation defined behaviour is a different class, yes, obviously. I guess nasal deamons was too complicated a piece of irony for you.
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