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Reading error or not, the ship has sailed long ago. As the article notes, C99 formalized the current UB interpretation. What C89 or K&R said is more just histor

by zokier 5y ago

Reading error or not, the ship has sailed long ago. As the article notes, C99 formalized the current UB interpretation. What C89 or K&R said is more just historical curiosity than of any real relevance today. I guess you could construct an argument that gcc should disable some optimizations when invoked with -std=c89, but I doubt anyone really cares at this point enough to justify the maintenance burden. C is a minefield today, and that is the reality we must live with. You can't turn back time 25 years and change what has happened.

anarazel 5y ago
> C is a minefield today, and that is the reality we must live with. You can't turn back time 25 years and change what has happened. I think it's doable to make some of the UB issues considerably less painful. E.g. define facilities to check for overflow safely, add facilities for explicit wrapping operations.