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by matheusmoreira 32 days ago
Completely agree. It can, and I think it's extremely annoying that it wasn't.

So we have the next best thing: builtins and flags. So long as those cover all the undefined behavior there is, we can live with it. Compiler gets to be "conformant" and we get to do useful things without the compiler folding the code into itself and inside out.

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One of these days you should write a blogpost about this.