On 3/19/16, James K. Lowden <jklowden at schemamania.org> wrote:
>
> Second, you can't test the future.  If the correctness of the code is
> subject to change by the compiler's interpretation of the language, how
> is the programmer to prevent it?
>

Indeed.  Every bit of the code examined by Prof. Regehr was
well-defined according to K&R.  But subsequent revisions of the
C-language standards changed that.  How does one write code that will
comply with language standards that keep changing out from under you?
-- 
D. Richard Hipp
drh at sqlite.org

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