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| From | Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: the language |
| Date | 2014-11-28 13:09 -0800 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <kfnfvd3t4li.fsf@x-alumni2.alumni.caltech.edu> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <kpBdw.5607$n97.3994@fx05.am4> <m56o8r$g27$1@dont-email.me> <m57gcm$20f$2@news.xmission.com> <YKIdw.878897$yK.495811@fx14.iad> <m59dvr$2kar$1@gwdu112.gwdg.de> |
Thomas Jahns <jahns@idontlikespam.dkrz.de> writes: > On 11/27/14 17:58, Richard Damon wrote: >> It strictly isn't portability that cause some things to be >> undefined, but the desire to make valid code run as fast as >> possible. I believe that virtually all of the "undefined >> behavior" in C could be defined at the cost of a lot of run-time >> checking and enforcing defined results. (Pointers would need to >> become "fat" to hold/point to bounds checking info). What can't >> be checked at run time should be able to be checked at (post) >> compile time to find all the undefined behavior caused by >> mis-matches between translation units. > > One example of things in C that cannot be converted to "defined > behaviour" in this way is e.g. the conversion of pointers to > intptr_t and back. See the documentation of MemSafe[1] where > some very motivated people tried to get all illegal references > out of C run-time, which is hard enough already. This conclusion isn't right. It may not be easy or convenient, but it is possible. The people who did MemSafe were operating under additional constraints that ruled ways of doing this that would allow 100% safety in such cases.
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Re: the language glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-02 05:42 +0000
Re: the language Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2014-11-28 19:25 -0500
Re: the language Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-01 03:21 -0800
Re: the language Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-12-01 14:02 +0000
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Re: the language Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-08 03:27 -0800
Re: the language Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-12-08 06:00 +0000
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Re: the language Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-08 03:37 -0800
Re: the language Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-12-08 12:53 +0000
Re: the language Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-16 04:21 -0800
Re: the language Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-12-16 12:43 +0000
Re: the language Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-16 14:46 -0800
Re: the language Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-12-17 00:23 +0000
Re: the language JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-12-17 07:01 +0000
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Re: the language Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-17 05:43 -0800
Re: the language Rosario193 <Rosario@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-18 18:30 +0100
Re: the language Rosario193 <Rosario@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-18 18:41 +0100
Re: the language Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-12-17 14:34 +0000
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Re: the language Morris Dovey <mrdovey@iedu.com> - 2014-12-19 21:32 -0600
Re: the language Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-12-19 16:49 +0000
Re: the language Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-12-19 17:00 +0000
Re: the language James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-12-19 13:57 -0500
Re: the language Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-19 14:31 -0800
Re: the language Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-12-19 20:29 +0000
Re: the language Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-12-19 20:36 +0000
Re: the language Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-17 07:18 -0800
Re: the language Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-12-17 15:45 +0000
Re: the language glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-17 16:50 +0000
Re: the language raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2014-12-17 17:24 +0000
Re: the language Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-18 02:07 -0600
Re: the language raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2014-12-18 12:04 +0000
Re: the language Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2014-12-18 08:06 -0500
Re: the language James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-12-18 08:30 -0500
Re: the language Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2014-12-19 00:11 -0500
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Re: the language Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-12-19 08:43 -0800
Re: the language Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2014-12-19 23:29 -0500
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Re: the language gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-12-20 08:45 +0000
Re: the language raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2014-12-20 09:45 +0000
Re: the language Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-20 03:17 -0800
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Re: the language raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2014-12-18 14:30 +0000
Re: the language raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2014-12-18 14:23 +0000
Re: the language Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-12-18 08:18 -0800
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Re: the language James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-12-20 13:36 -0500
Re: the language Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-12-20 11:43 -0800
Re: the language Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-12-20 11:37 -0800
Re: the language glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-20 20:10 +0000
Re: the language Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-21 15:02 -0600
Re: the language Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-12-21 22:02 +0000
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Re: the language raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2014-12-21 17:45 +0000
Re: the language Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-18 10:29 -0800
Re: the language Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-20 05:29 -0600
Re: the language Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-20 11:32 -0800
Re: the language Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2014-12-21 15:23 -0600
Re: the language Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-22 23:39 -0800
Re: the language glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-20 20:22 +0000
Re: the language Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-18 10:24 -0800
Re: the language Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-12-18 18:36 +0000
Re: the language Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-19 09:24 -0800
Re: the language Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-12-19 17:53 +0000
Re: the language Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-12-20 11:48 -0800
Re: the language JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-12-19 02:20 +0000
Re: the language Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-12-19 08:31 +0000
Re: the language JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-12-19 09:31 +0000
Re: the language Richard Heathfield <invalid@see.sig.invalid> - 2014-12-19 10:10 +0000
Re: the language Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2014-12-19 07:08 -0800
Re: the language JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2014-12-20 06:39 +0000
Re: the language John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2014-12-20 07:32 +0000
Re: the language Greg Martin <greg.at.softsprocket@dot.com> - 2015-01-04 17:02 +0000
Re: the language James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-01-04 12:40 -0500
Re: the language Greg Martin <greg.at.softsprocket@dot.com> - 2015-01-04 18:02 +0000
Re: the language James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-01-05 09:47 -0500
Re: the language Greg Martin <greg.at.softsprocket@dot.com> - 2015-01-05 15:14 +0000
Re: the language Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-01-05 08:42 -0800
Re: the language glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-01-06 00:14 +0000
Re: the language James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-01-05 13:19 -0500
Re: the language Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-01-04 15:59 -0500
Re: the language Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-01-04 14:30 -0800
Re: the language Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-01-04 15:44 -0800
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