>If you care about these issues there's a lot of rules lawyering you have to do to be sure your code isn't going to break if the compiler is cleverer than you a

>If you care about these issues there's a lot of rules lawyering you have to do to be sure your code isn't going to break if the compiler is cleverer than you are. >A modern take on C should be much more explicit about semantically meaningful memory access. If you are working on concurrent code close to the hardware you’re going to either have to accept a less efficient language or engage in rule lawyering. Unfortunately, granting the compiler license to perform the most mundane optimizations interferes with concurrent structures. Fortunately, with C there are rules to lawyer with, and they actually are simple. No matter what, rules will always need learned.