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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Understanding C89/C99 aliasing
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:35:15 -0800
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
> On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 at 3:08:26 PM UTC-6, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> And what directives have users actually asked for?
>
> Well, as a starting point, I've seen lots of complaints regarding behavior
> in case of overflow or violations of the "effective type" rules which were
> obviously written by people who had never done systems-level programming.

That doesn't sound like requests for directives.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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