The article is just complaining about undefined behavior, and what compilers do when they encounter code not written to spec. Rather than rehashing the argumen

The article is just complaining about undefined behavior, and what compilers do when they encounter code not written to spec. Rather than rehashing the arguments for and against it, I'd really recommend anyone interested to read these articles: http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-know.html http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-... http://blog.regehr.org/archives/213 http://blog.regehr.org/archives/213