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Comment by 1718627440

8 hours ago

> I think the issue has been that the line between de-jure and de-facto behaviours has shifted over the years as compiler optimizations suddenly began relying on de-jure intrepretations of UB to increase performance while ignoring de-facto usage of the language.

I guess I am too young, and also too much a purist, because I start from the impression of what the language is, not what the implementations happen to do.

> Personally I think the industry would've benefited from a Boring C (as described by DJB) push by people that would've created a public parallell "de-jure" standard that would've had a chance to be adopted by compiler creators.

-O0