[jstimpfle]

I think people make up way too much of it. What is the actual term of art? What is the meaning of UB? If you look in the standard, UB is basically what its name says, it is behaviour (or state) that is not defined. It can be anything. And that makes sense in many cases: What if you construct a random pointer, and read it or write it? It's not useful or practically possible to define the behaviour from then on. So the behaviour is left undefined, simple as that.

Now are there many cases of UB in C, many more than strictly need to exist on contemporary platforms? For sure there are. But does it affect me? Not unless I need a specific behaviour common to most contemporary platforms that I can't get within the confines of C, even considering compiler specific extensions. Honestly I can't come up with any of the top of my head. Maybe some integer-shifting stuff or such, if the compiler was able to prove I'm doing sth undefined, it can leave out that code (or delete my mail, for the doomers). Personally, it hasn't happened to me, and it's on the compiler authors to not do stupid things too.

Leaving all the semantic hair-splitting aside. What is the practical difference in how you write a Rust program compared to a C program, given that integer overflow is "defined" in Rust?