Notices by Andy Price (andyprice@mastodon.social)

Undefined behaviour in a programming language spec is a good thing because it enables optimisations. Similarly, taking the windscreen wipers off your car is a good thing because it improves aerodynamics.

@etchedpixels Sequence points is an interesting case because the unsequenced operations are effectively defined by omission :) You still don't get compiler warnings about something like foo(&s) + bar(&s) though so I'm sure there are a million bugs out there due to it. Is that worth it, is the question.

"What is really needed, [Linus Torvalds] said, is to find ways to get away from the email patch model, which is not really working anymore."

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/952034/922c90d8097bd209/

Well I didn't think I'd ever read those words but I'll be glad to see Linux development moving in that direction.

[Edit: replaced link with a free-to-view link]

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