On 06.06.2019 05:07, Mouse wrote: >> Unfortunately, if "undefined behavior" (UB) is invoked, you simply >> cannot claim to understand what is happening, because C11-compliant >> compilers have a lot of leeway in what code they generate when >> behavior is undefined. > > Compilers that do unexpected things under such circumstances are > extremely poor choices for building kernels. The kernel is not, and > a few parts of it cannot be, fully portable code in the C, or even > POSIX, sense. > > Since IIRC the NetBSD kernel does not even try to be buildable with > more than a few (two? three?) C implementations, I think it is entirely > reasonable to speak of understanding the code's behaviour in many cases > when it is, formally, undefined. > That's why I proposed to paper over it and switch to defined constructs in this case.
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