5 ms·

A letter to X3J11 from some chap named Dennis Ritchie.

• raphlinus 6y ago
  For people who read the comments here but not the primary sources[0], you've put words into Dennis Ritchie's mouth. He did not say that UB must go, but that noalias must go. And, lo and behold, it did. So these (altered) quotes are not at all a fair characterization of what's actually in the standard. [0]: https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/dmr-on-noalias.html https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/dmr-on-noalias.html
  • kps 6y ago
    He said why ‘noalias must go’, and those reasons apply equally to the modern conception of UB, so it's clear that the consequences of the definition were not realized at the time.