Re: Undefined behaviour, was: for or against equality

From	anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: Undefined behaviour, was: for or against equality
Date	2022-01-08 17:52 +0000
Organization	Institut fuer Computersprachen, Technische Universitaet Wien
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
>Undefined behaviour, as far as language standards are concerned, are
>omnipresent in programming - for all languages.

Please prove this astounding assertion.  My impression is that managed
languages define everything, at least to some extent, and leave
nothing undefined.  If they allowed nasal demons, the appeal of
managed languages would evaporate instantly.

- anton
--
M. Anton Ertl
anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/
[Things like .NET define a lot but they still are at the mercy
of their envronment when you ask for a variable sized chunk of
storage. -John]

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  Re: for or against equality, was Why are ambiguous grammars usually a bad idea? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-01-06 09:11 +0100
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