रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Nov 2, 2024

Here be dragons 😰:

“The Strict Aliasing Situation Is Pretty Bad” [2016], John Regehr (https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1307).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757701 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11288665

#Programming #C #CPlusPlus #Optimization #Aliasing #StrictAliasing #Compilers

The Strict Aliasing Situation is Pretty Bad – Embedded in Academia

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@Teufelchen what I find even more annoying about programming in C in 2024: Finding out about all these undefined behaviours now with compilers making weird, silent optimization decisions with them... I'm wondering, how many C programmers have heard of #StrictAliasing before?