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Before reading this I thought working on compilers might be a fun career direction

• jcranmer 6y ago
  To be fair, this kind of complication is relatively rare in compiler work. On the other hand, when it does come up, it does tend to create several hours-long meetings where there are more opinions on what the "obvious" semantics should be than people present. I've always been a stickler for trying to actually specify the obvious semantics to try to forestall these conversations.
  • ralfj 6y ago
    Seeing how long the story of poison/undef is dragging out for LLVM, I'd say it's more of a years-long process than an hours-long one. ;) But still, the most important part is that there's a discussion at all, and the desire to properly solve this problem.
    • jcranmer 6y ago
      Oh, finishing the meetings may take months or years, but the meetings themselves are only a few hours long.
• lambdatronics 6y ago
  If more of the literature were written like this, I'd be more inclined to it.