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undefined behavior: a standalone construct

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Programming languages

program operations a language standard leaves undefined, which optimizing compilers may exploit to silently remove checks.

In programming languages, undefined behavior refers to program operations a language standard leaves undefined, which optimizing compilers may exploit to silently remove checks. This meaning comes from Wang (2013) in Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles.[1]

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References

Wang, X., Zeldovich, N., Kaashoek, M. F., & Solar-Lezama, A. (2013). Towards optimization-safe systems: analyzing the impact of undefined behavior. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. https://doi.org/10.1145/2517349.2522728

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