Re: Undefined behaviour, was: for or against equality

anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Sat, 08 Jan 2022 17:52:02 GMT

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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2022 17:52:02 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
References: <17d70d74-1cf1-cc41-6b38-c0b307aeb35a@gkc.org.uk> 22-01-016 22-01-018 <7f4f52f2-49ee-9e80-1f03-c3fb9c74f574@gkc.org.uk> 22-01-029
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Keywords: standards, semantics, comment
Posted-Date: 08 Jan 2022 13:20:51 EST

David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>Undefined behaviour, as far as language standards are concerned, are
>omnipresent in programming - for all languages.


Please prove this astounding assertion. My impression is that managed
languages define everything, at least to some extent, and leave
nothing undefined. If they allowed nasal demons, the appeal of
managed languages would evaporate instantly.


- anton
--
M. Anton Ertl
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/
[Things like .NET define a lot but they still are at the mercy
of their envronment when you ask for a variable sized chunk of
storage. -John]


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