[johnisgood]

> system compilers

Such as? Do not get me wrong, I am against using GNU extensions, for example, and I do tend to make my code as portable as possible, but my main issue was with people glorifying the standard to what compilers themselves do not even strictly conform, and sometimes for good reasons. When you write code, you cannot ignore the compiler for obvious practical reasons. It does not matter what the paper says when the compiler does something completely different, or differently. If something goes terrible, you cannot say, "Oops, I was silly. I did not bother checking the documentation of the compiler.".

This reminds me of something like: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/5/769