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Re:Catch-23: The New C Standard Sets the World on Fire by adgjlsfhk1 on Saturday April 01, 2023 @11:13PM (#35406786)
> you have to be careful to test your code on different compiler settings.

The problem is you have to test your code on compilers that don't exist yet with compiler settings that do different things from any compiler that ever might exist.

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Re:Catch-23: The New C Standard Sets the World on Fire by coliveira on Saturday April 01, 2023 @11:55PM (#35407022)
This has always been the case. If you write code that has UB, new compilers can do something yet undefined, by definition.
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