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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Zack Weinberg via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>,  Zack Weinberg <zack@owlfolio.org>
Subject: Re: “Undefined behavior” considered harmful (was Re: Bug 29863 - Segmentation fault in memcmp-sse2.S…)
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 23:20:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y1qp97j4.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ypikr0wigg4d.wl-zack@owlfolio.org> (Zack Weinberg via Libc-alpha's message of "Thu, 29 Dec 2022 14:32:50 -0500")

On Dez 29 2022, Zack Weinberg via Libc-alpha wrote:

> 1. The C standard uses “undefined behavior” far more liberally than it
>    ought to.  In many cases of existing UB the committee could define
>    the behavior (possibly as implementation-defined or unspecified)
>    without any actual negative consequences.  It seems the committee
>    *is* moving in this direction as of C2x, for instance by dropping
>    the allowances for non-twos-complement signed arithmetic, but they
>    could and should go a lot farther down that road.

That's not removing an undefined behavior, it's removing an
implementation choice.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-29 22:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-13 18:20 Bug 29863 - Segmentation fault in memcmp-sse2.S if memory contents can concurrently change Narayanan Iyer
2022-12-13 18:31 ` Andrew Pinski
2022-12-13 18:39   ` Narayanan Iyer
2022-12-13 18:39 ` Cristian Rodríguez
2022-12-13 19:08 ` Noah Goldstein
2022-12-13 19:13   ` Narayanan Iyer
2022-12-13 19:25     ` Noah Goldstein
2022-12-13 20:56       ` Zack Weinberg
2022-12-13 23:29         ` Carlos O'Donell
2022-12-14  2:28           ` Zack Weinberg
2022-12-14  4:16             ` Carlos O'Donell
2022-12-14 14:16               ` Zack Weinberg
2022-12-14 17:36                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2022-12-29  7:09                   ` Zack Weinberg
2022-12-29 19:32               ` “Undefined behavior” considered harmful (was Re: Bug 29863 - Segmentation fault in memcmp-sse2.S…) Zack Weinberg
2022-12-29 22:20                 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2022-12-30 13:28                   ` Florian Weimer
2022-12-30 15:09                 ` Florian Weimer
2022-12-13 22:52       ` Bug 29863 - Segmentation fault vs invalid results, memory models, and control/data dependencies Carlos O'Donell
2022-12-14 12:03         ` Florian Weimer
2022-12-13 21:20   ` Bug 29863 - Segmentation fault in memcmp-sse2.S if memory contents can concurrently change Florian Weimer
2022-12-13 22:59     ` Noah Goldstein
2022-12-14 12:06       ` Florian Weimer

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