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Re:Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C by regehr on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @03:48PM (#8234350)
The linked articles by Chris Lattner explain why this is very difficult.

http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...

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Re:Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C by cousin_it on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @04:28PM (#8234561)
Is it true that undesirable UB exploitation often happens after macroexpansion and inlining, and doesn't make any actual source lines unreachable? Are there any simple examples of that?
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Re:Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C by regehr on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @04:41PM (#8234620)
Does this example help?

http://markshroyer.com/2012/06/c-both-true-and-false/

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Re:Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C by cousin_it on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @04:55PM (#8234673)
Yeah. Thanks!
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