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> 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"



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