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		masklinn on June 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How GCC and Clang handle statically known undefine... By being declared as that? Division has no side effects, and division by 0 is UB. UBs only occur in invalid programs, so behaviour in case of UB is not relevant to a discussion of side effects or their lack thereof, in language terms these are not programs at all.

asdfaoeu on June 25, 2024 [–]

If print statement never completes then it is a well defined program. Because there will be no division by zero.

masklinn on June 25, 2024 | [–]

And if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a bike.

dllthomas on June 25, 2024 | | [–]

Is your grandmother a bike every time the receiving side of a pipe terminates before the sending side, or only when it happens to interrupt a printf?

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