>> read the standard >> Casey Muratori, who's a better C programmer than me, is of the opinion that you should check your compiler's behavior rather than read

>> read the standard >> Casey Muratori, who's a better C programmer than me, is of the opinion that you should check your compiler's behavior rather than read standards. In Casey Muratori's case, he's the type of person who cares to understand what the compiler is actually generating under the hood. He doesn't exactly trust the compiler to always do the right thing. There was an episode of Handmade Hero where he caught an optimization #fail of the compiler and tried to figure out what was going on (live). https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/596775025023287297 https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/596775025023287297 Casey Muratori also has been developing in Visual Studio for a very long time. Visual Studio has a long, tortuous, history of being non-stanards compliant and buggy. And Microsoft until very recently, never cared to fix anything. (And it still doesn't conform to C99, let alone C11.)