Richard Kenner wrote:
Specifically, because we value reliability over speed and strict
standard conformance...
Seems to me that programs that strictly meet the standard of the language
they are written in would be more reliable than programs that are written
in some ill-defined language.
In the long run, sure, but during the transition, which can be
very long, this is only an academic observation. After all in
the Ada world, we advise many of our big customers to use
-fno-strict-aliasing as a matter of course to avoid similar
aliasing problems in Ada.
