On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Torvald Riegel <[email protected]> wrote:
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> IOW, I wrote that such a compiler transformation would be wrong in my
> opinion. Thus, it should *not* return 42.
Ahh, I am happy to have misunderstood. The "intuitively" threw me,
because I thought that was building up to a "but", and misread the
rest.
I then react stronly, because I've seen so much total crap (the
type-based C aliasing rules topping my list) etc coming out of
standards groups because it allows them to generate wrong code that
goes faster, that I just assume compiler people are out to do stupid
things in the name of "..but the standard allows it".
Linus
