Re:Proposal for a Friendly Dialect of C
by scott_s on Thursday August 28, 2014 @11:14AM
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But optimizing based on explicitly detecting undefined behavior is not a legitimate extension. It is simply insane, because the undefined behavior is not actually being defined.
The authors of this proposal agree, and are trying to avoid such situations by just eliminating undefined behavior. Their blog posts and academic papers (linked from the blog post in this submission) have many examples where such insanity has happened.
The authors of this proposal agree, and are trying to avoid such situations by just eliminating undefined behavior. Their blog posts and academic papers (linked from the blog post in this submission) have many examples where such insanity has happened.