I am familiar with the verbiage in the specification. My contention is that the currently popular tendency for C compilers to generate code which behaves in way

I am familiar with the verbiage in the specification. My contention is that the currently popular tendency for C compilers to generate code which behaves in ways that are absurd and unpredictable, on the grounds that you shouldn't have been doing that anyway, is an unhelpful indulgence on the part of the compiler engineers.