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cube13 on June 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Little C Function From Hell

>If the result differs from the specification, it is a bug.

A large part of the C standard is implementation defined(see acqq's post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4131828 ), so the result could be different on multiple compilers, not a bug, and STILL completely within spec.

scott_s on June 19, 2012 [–]

If I recall correctly, they only generated programs that had well-specified behavior. Not just legal, but specified.

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