Comment by deepsun

> How did we get here? ... introduced in C++11 alongside threading support. The standard says that the implementation may assume any thread will eventually do one of the following: terminate, call a library I/O function, access a volatile glvalue, or perform a synchronization or atomic operation.

I'm more surprised it passed through the committee, they should've seen that back in 2011. I can not imagine such a bug in spec would pass through a Java committee, as they discuss every little thing for years (sometimes decades). It's not like embedded code is something new.