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Surprised no one has mentioned what the author of C, Dennis Ritchie, said about the addition of "const" to the language. https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/dmr-on-no

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  > Assigning an ordinary pointer to a pointer to a `noalias' object is a license for the compiler to undertake aggressive optimizations that are completely legal by the committee's rules, but make hash of apparently safe programs I can only imagine what he thought about aggressively optimizing C-family compilers in his later years.