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> This is one of the reasons gcc/llvm won: they don't care about that stuff. I mean, they care about performance, but not at all costs like these guys care. Re
by loup-vaillant 11y ago
> This is one of the reasons gcc/llvm won: they don't care about that stuff. I mean, they care about performance, but not at all costs like these guys care.
Really? http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/kps2015/proceedings/KPS_2015_submission_29.pdf http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/kps2015/proceedings/KPS_201... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11219874 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11219874
While GCC and LLVM do care about implementing the standard correctly, they show little mercy to the poor developer who failed to avoid one of the many sharp corners of undefined behaviour.
- DannyBee 11y agoYes. Really. There was a long thread about this just a few days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11219874 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11219874) I already commented there, and since i didn't always have pleasant things to say, i'm not going to repeat them here.