X-Git-Url: https://git.ralfj.de/web.git/blobdiff_plain/e9e7f558e195c0992d8b37bcbaa112b01694cc67..91713eac2f6b8f2d75bcd1ac3500b1d1f4350225:/personal/_posts/2017-07-14-undefined-behavior.md diff --git a/personal/_posts/2017-07-14-undefined-behavior.md b/personal/_posts/2017-07-14-undefined-behavior.md index 732117a..77e7315 100644 --- a/personal/_posts/2017-07-14-undefined-behavior.md +++ b/personal/_posts/2017-07-14-undefined-behavior.md @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ This could be the end of the game: No alias information, no way to verify our a ## Shifting responsibility -However, it turns out that compilers writers consider these optimizations important enough that they came up with an alternative solution: +However, it turns out that compiler writers consider these optimizations important enough that they came up with an alternative solution: Instead of having the compiler verify such assumptions, they declared the programmer responsible. For example, the C standard says that memory accesses have to happen with the right "effective type": If data was stored with a `float` pointer, it must not be read with an `int` pointer. @@ -88,3 +88,5 @@ It is with such considerations in my mind that I have previously written about [ Coming up next on this channel: During my [internship]({{ site.baseurl }}{% post_url 2017-05-23-internship-starting %}), I am working on such a specification. My ideas are concrete enough now that I can write down a draft, which I will share with the world to see what the world thinks about it. + +**Uodate:** [Writing down has happened]({{ site.baseurl }}{% post_url 2017-07-17-types-as-contracts %}).