[ub] Objectives and tasks for SG12

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr at cs.tamu.edu
Thu May 30 22:17:58 CEST 2013


Jens Maurer <Jens.Maurer at gmx.net> wrote:

[...]

| > What does "behavior of unrelated code" even mean once we've invoked
| > undefined behavior?
| 
| Well, I thought the goal of SG12 was to discuss whether the current
| definition of "undefined behavior" should be retained for some (which?)
| cases, or whether something could be done to restrain the set of valid
| executions.  For example, we already have the concept of "unspecified
| behavior", e.g. the sequencing of evaluation of function arguments is
| unspecified.  This means the implementation is restricted to choose
| among a set of possible behaviors, and not exhibit arbitrary behavior.

That is correct.

The problems we are facing are real, and unfortunately, not vanishing.

-- Gaby





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