[littlestymaar]

> and given that random garbage could result in pretty much arbitrary "undefined behavior"

Nitpick: UB doesn't come from reading random garbage, it's quite the opposite: UB could result in reading random garbage, but it could also result in many worse things.

[uryga]

i put it in quotes because i meant "arbitrarily weird side-effects", but you're right that i should have used a different term