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Point taken about NPEs being defined behavior, but from a practical point of view, a bug is a bug (and bugs is what the parent comment was referring to). Wheth

Point taken about NPEs being defined behavior, but from a practical point of view, a bug is a bug (and bugs is what the parent comment was referring to). Whether the bug was due to a well-defined or undefined behavior seems like an exercise in assigning blame to another entity (the language, the committee, the compiler, etc).

jerf 5y ago
Correct assignment of (technical) blame is an important engineering task, though. You sound to me like you are thinking that's some sort of wrong thing to do, but I would disagree. Identifying whether the bug is a defined (in C) behavior or the result of the compiler making a certain choice as the result of your code invoking undefined behavior is an important element of fixing the bug; if you don't know which is which you're operating under a critical handicap.