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		mlvljr on Oct 24, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “gcc will quietly break nearly half of all the pac... Not many know (and less people care), funnily :) I have yet to see a thorough (source-to-compiler-intent-to-assembly) comparative description of undefined, unspecified and implementation-defined behaviors, though (not just a somewhat insightful blog, or techno gospel, which the C and C++ standards are).

nitrogen on Oct 24, 2015 [–]

You could always write one. I recommend the work of John Regehr as a starting reference: http://blog.regehr.org/

mlvljr on Oct 24, 2015 | [–]

I wish I had time to learn this first :)

But yes, authoring a book titled "Well-defined C (and C++)" one day would be awesome.

Thanks for the link.

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