> even though someone may rely on either for correctness.
That someone is playing with fire. It's the kind of optimization that might be removed in a hotfix because it turns out to break something else.
It's even worse than relying on things like byte order -- and if you rely on them, you are definitely outside the realm of "C language", and into the realm of "Specifically LLVM v.37x patchlevel 2, on an SSE4 architecture"
That someone is playing with fire. It's the kind of optimization that might be removed in a hotfix because it turns out to break something else.
It's even worse than relying on things like byte order -- and if you rely on them, you are definitely outside the realm of "C language", and into the realm of "Specifically LLVM v.37x patchlevel 2, on an SSE4 architecture"