[saagarjha]

> Also, understand the undefined behavior, the compiler optimizations and how it can affect your code if you forget about the UB or if you ignore the compiler warnings, and read about the `volatile` keyword.

PSA: volatile generally doesn't do what you want it to; you almost never want it. volatile does not "fix" undefined behavior.

> And a personal tip, please tell the compiler not to use strict aliasing (I think it's stupid) - you will get rid of some UB without much sacrifice.

This prevents the compiler from performing a number of optimizations.