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by 8xde0wcNwpslOw 2893 days ago
Don't quote me on this, but I think padding bytes might have different values in certain cases.
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I'm fairly sure it's always undefined behavior to observe those differences, so while it's possible in practice, it'd never work in theory.
> while it's possible in practice, it'd never work in theory.

Hah, sounds like you nailed the emergent philosophy of C there... :-)