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Comment by astrange

21 days ago

The C spec is certainly not formal or precise.

https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2020/12/14/provenance.html

Another example is that it's unclear from the standard if you can write malloc() in C.

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butterNaN  21 days ago

Sure but the point OP is making is that it is still more spec'd than most real world problems

  • astrange  21 days ago

    You're welcome to try writing a C compiler and standard library doing no research other than reading the spec.

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