On: You Can't Always Hash Pointers in C (2016)

[reacweb]

No, the bad practice is on the side of standardisation commitees and all users suffer from it. Recently, I got burned by the removal of the symbol CLK_TCK from a header (https://github.com/Orc/pdksh/issues/1). If you have access to a RedHat 5, you can observe it with the command /bin/pdksh -c "time sleep 5". I think we should work to replace the C language because all its weaknesses have been worsen by standardisation commitees.

[saagarjha → reacweb]

I don't quite see how the removal of CLK_TCK has anything to do with "bad practice…on the side of standardization committees".

[reacweb → saagarjha]

This change breaks working applications, is difficult to notice and has no clear benefits. The same occurs when compilers use standard's undefined behaviour for micro optimizations.