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If the code relied on behavior the standard doesn't guarantee, the code was always wrong. It just worked by accident (maybe only in the cases we tested), and we
by prodigal_erik 17y ago
If the code relied on behavior the standard doesn't guarantee, the code was always wrong. It just worked by accident (maybe only in the cases we tested), and we didn't have a compiler and runtime good enough to tell us the code was wrong.
- JoeAltmaier 17y agoSounds academic. The programmer verified correct operation in the environment. In fact it was never going to fail where it was originally written and tested. That is "correct" by most reasonable definitions.