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Re:What is C in practice? by bluecalm on Monday June 29, 2015 @02:07PM (#9799798)
Main problem with breaking on undefined behavior is detecting it in the first place. It's not a choice not to warn/break it's an implementation challenge to find those.
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Re:What is C in practice? by dllthomas on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @06:52AM (#9804225)
I think one could reliably break (more safely) on undefined behavior by inserting defensive run-time checks. Whether that's worth the performance hit is liable to be domain specific.
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