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by AvImd 2251 days ago
> If the compiler aborted compilation when it detected undefined behavior, you’d be getting a lot of false positives for unreachable code

Could you please provide an example of this?

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Overflow of signed integers is undefined.

    int add(int a, int b) { return a + b; }
Unless the compiler can prove that `add` is never called with a and b values resulting in an overflow, this code can lead to UB, and, under your rules, the compilation aborts.