What every compiler writer should know about programmers (Anton Ertl, 2015) [pdf]

2 comments

• ameliaquining 2 hours ago
  Previously:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11219874 (2016)

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19659555 (2019)
• zephen 22 minutes ago
  Here's a cogent argument that any decision by compiler writers that they can do whatever they wish whenever they encounter an "undefined behavior" construct is rubbish:

  https://www.yodaiken.com/2021/05/19/undefined-behavior-in-c-...

  And here's a cautionary tale of how a compiler writer doing whatever they wish once they encounter undefined behavior makes debugging intractable:

  https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-subtle-bug-you-have-h...