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by killingtime74 842 days ago
You're placing a lot of trust in it not being undefined behavior.

Additionally, of course anything can be done with enough time and effort but the costs add up when you are doing things manually rather than letting the compiler handle it. Compiler has had many person-years of effort spent in ensuring the output is correct, can we do the same for all the code we write?