> I don't think they had any idea that they were effectively declaring 90% of all programs buggy. I agree. During the standardization process, there was a prop

> I don't think they had any idea that they were effectively declaring 90% of all programs buggy. I agree. During the standardization process, there was a proposal (‘noalias’) that dmr described as “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”, and, that “[i]t negates every brave promise X3J11 ever made about codifying existing practices, preserving the existing body of code, and keeping (dare I say it?) ‘the spirit of C.’”¹ If he or anyone else at the time had realized that ‘undefined behaviour’ would turn out to do the same, there response would have been the same: “[it] must go. This is non-negotiable.” ¹ https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/dmr-on-noalias.html https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/dmr-on-noalias.html