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4 months ago
Care to share a language where the compiler infers the semantic meaning of asserts and optimizes them away? I’ve never heard of this optimization.
4 months ago
Care to share a language where the compiler infers the semantic meaning of asserts and optimizes them away? I’ve never heard of this optimization.
Signed overflow is UB in C/C++ and several compilers will skip explicit overflow checks as a result. See: https://godbolt.org/z/WehcWj3G5
C. This is a great thread: https://mastodon.social/@regehr/113821964763012870
(That was one of my texts at uni)
C and C++