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Learn C the Hard Way: Practical Exercises on the Computational Subjects You Keep Avoiding (Like C)
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Learn C the Hard Way: Practical Exercises on the Computational Subjects You Keep Avoiding (Like C)

by Zed A. Shaw
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
380 pages
10h 15m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Exercise 31. Common Undefined Behavior

At this point in the book, it’s time to introduce you to the most common kinds of UB that you will encounter. C has 191 behaviors that the standards committee has decided aren’t defined by the standard, and therefore anything goes. Some of these behaviors are legitimately not the compiler’s job, but the vast majority are simply lazy capitulations by the standards committee that cause annoyances, or worse, defects. An example of laziness:

An unmatched “or” character is encountered on a logical source line during tokenization.

In this instance, the C99 standard actually allows a compiler writer to fail at a parsing task that a junior in college could get right. Why is this? Who knows, but most likely someone ...

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