Around 10:07am on Monday, December 07, 2009 (UK time), johnmatthews2000 
scrawled:

> --- In [email protected], Paul Herring <pauljherr...@...> wrote:
> >
> > Since you're messing with  undefined behaviour, why would you expect
> > any particular behaviour?
> 
> Because I would expect the compiler writers to do whatever is easiest - 
> wouldn't you?

No, because easiest has no real meaning in this context.

I do think that if I ever wrote a compiler, I would reformat all the
hard drives in these circumstances, just to stop these sort of threads
which seem to run at the rate of about one per week. And if I did, my
compiler would still be standards complient.

Steve

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