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by startling 3506 days ago
Undefined behavior is not illegal. The compiler can do anything with undefined behavior, including exactly what the author expected.
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scott_s 3505 days ago
It is illegal, for any reasonable definition of illegal. See my comment from earlier in the year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10840497
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startling 3505 days ago
"Illegal" seems stronger to me than "not strictly conforming", I guess (and so does "well-formed", for that matter). But I think we basically agree.
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