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by masklinn 4698 days ago
Indeed, the spec states that keys SHOULD be unique (with RFC 2119 meaning) and leaves behavior unspecified in case of duplicate key.
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My favourite example of dealing with undefined behaviour is this:

In practice, many C implementations recognize, for example, #pragma once as a rough equivalent of #include guards — but GCC 1.17, upon finding a #pragma directive, would instead attempt to launch commonly distributed Unix games such as NetHack and Rogue, or start Emacs running a simulation of the Towers of Hanoi.[7]

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undefined_behavior