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C aliasing rules can very quickly make "following the data back to its origin" very difficult.
by rkangel 7y ago
C aliasing rules can very quickly make "following the data back to its origin" very difficult.
- userbinator 7y agoTheoretically it's equivalent to the Halting Problem, but in practice I've not seen such difficulty; if aliasing does become a problem to the extent that following dataflow is difficult, I suspect there are already far deeper design flaws in the codebase.