Comment by shakna
8 hours ago
> Furthermore, at every sequence point the value last stored in the object shall agree with that prescribed by the abstract machine, except as modified by the unknown factors mentioned previously.
I quoted the C standard, first. Not compiler behaviour.
I showed where it requires the compiler not to optimise this.
How about, instead of one-line throwaway disagreements, you point out where they are permitted to do this, instead?
The compiler is required to not optimise out reads/writes through volatile. That's unrelated to code also having UB: you can't sprinkle volatile through arbitrary UB and suddenly have it be defined.
> A compliant compiler is only free to optimise away, where it can determine there are no side-effects
A compliant compiler is also allowed to assume UB cannot occur.