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So basically you are saying that in the average C codebase there are millions of landmines waiting to silently fail on you. This is not a ringing endorsement of
by zaphar 5y ago
So basically you are saying that in the average C codebase there are millions of landmines waiting to silently fail on you. This is not a ringing endorsement of the language it's more like a ringing indictment instead.
- gpderetta 5y agoI certainly do not think that each dead store which has been eliminated is a landmine, this is such an extreme position that it isn't even worth considering. In the very rare cases were I needed a store to actually happen I will use inline asm or some form of volatile.
- pjmlp 5y agoWhich coming back to the main subject isn't ISO C, rather a compiler extension.