Considering how important “undefined behavior” has become to C semantics and the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 Committee, the lack of any reference to it in the K&R ANSI book is notable and the description in the 1999 C Rationale was quite modest.
Torvalds on aliasing
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See also PLOS article, pointer alias in C and remarks on the purpose of C. From: LKML From Linus Torvalds <> Date Tue, 5 Jun 2018 10:30:21 -0700 Subject Re: [GIT PULL] Device properties framework update for v4.18-rc1 On Mon, Jun
Pointer alias analysis in C
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Perhaps there is some reason to provide a mechanism for asserting, in a particular patch of code, that the compiler is free to make optimistic assumptions about the kinds of aliasing that can occur. I don’t know any acceptable way of
Depressing and faintly terrifying days for the C standard
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C STANDARD UNDEFINED BEHAVIOR VERSUS WITTGENSTEIN 1. DEPRESSING AND FAINTLY TERRIFYING Chris Lattner, the architect of the Clang/LLVM C compiler explained the effects of the C standard’s “undefined behavior (UB): UB is an inseperable part of C programming, […] this
The C standard versus C and the mother of all hacks.
The Kafkaesque interaction of the C standard and the main open source C compilers was concisely outlined by one of the main LLVM authors back in 2011: “knowing that INT_MAX+1 is undefined allows optimizing X+1 > X to “true”. Knowing