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startling | 9 years ago

Undefined behavior is not illegal. The compiler can do anything with undefined behavior, including exactly what the author expected.

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scott_s|9 years ago

It is illegal, for any reasonable definition of illegal. See my comment from earlier in the year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10840497

startling|9 years ago

"Illegal" seems stronger to me than "not strictly conforming", I guess (and so does "well-formed", for that matter). But I think we basically agree.