Draft standards C89 The ANSI standard. C23 the most recent draft. Notes and quotes on C standard. Three modest proposals for fixing the C standard.
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Undefined behavior in C is a reading error.
Considering how important “undefined behavior” has become to C semantics and the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14 Committee, the lack of any reference to it in the K&R
Read moreDennis Ritchie on alias analysis in the C programming language 1988
This 1998 note by Dennis Ritchie from comp.lang.c (and also here ) is very current since the concept of noalias has definitely crept back into
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Torvalds on aliasing
See also Dennis Ritchie on aliasing, PLOS article, pointer alias in C and remarks on the purpose of C. From: LKML From Linus Torvalds <> Date
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Pointer alias analysis in C
Perhaps there is some reason to provide a mechanism for asserting, in a particular patch of code, that the compiler is free to make optimistic
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Depressing and faintly terrifying days for the C standard
C STANDARD UNDEFINED BEHAVIOR VERSUS WITTGENSTEIN 1. DEPRESSING AND FAINTLY TERRIFYING Chris Lattner, the architect of the Clang/LLVM C compiler explained the effects of the
Read moreThe C standard versus C and the mother of all hacks.
The Kafkaesque interaction of the C standard and the main open source C compilers was concisely outlined by one of the main LLVM authors back
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