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Original title is "A framework for systematically addressing undefined behaviour in the C++ Standard". The HN title is misleading in two ways: - The paper cove
by aw1621107 10mo ago
Original title is "A framework for systematically addressing
undefined behaviour in the C++ Standard". The HN title is misleading in two ways:
- The paper covers more than just implicit contract assertions
- Implicit contract assertions are stated to cover only a (large) subset of UB in C++. Other techniques are needed to address UB that falls outside this subset. From the paper (italics in original):
> In this section, we propose a framework that systematically introduces runtime checks and well-defined replacement behaviour — two of the tools that form the strategy presented in Section 3 —
to the C++ Standard. Runtime checks guarding against core language UB are realised as implicit
contract assertions
And later:
> Having specified precisely what an implicit contract assertion is and how it behaves, we can now
apply that specification to every case of UB that is — at least in principle — checkable at run time.
As we saw in Section 2, this is true for 77 cases, that is, 95% of all identified cases of explicit core
language UB in C++.