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Comment by jcranmer

4 months ago

> All a compiler does is take a well defined data structure and transform it into another

Sorry, having worked on language semantics topics, "well-defined" is not how I would describe either a programming language or the behavior of machine code.

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storoj  4 months ago

There should be a well-defined list of undefined behaviors.

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