Long read, confusing/obtuse notation with C* and "C" used to denote C optimized for an single platform and "ideal" "portable" C respectively.
However Interesting in the end. Not sure it will make me avoid -O2/ -O3 flags or switch compilers, but I will keep this subtle C* "C" distinction in mind. Thank god I don't usually have to rely on "risky" behavior to get my crappy code to work.
hmm I guess when I said crappy code I wasn't clear about my lack of good programing techniques ...
and the paper clearly outlined that some people think its a hard thankless problem so maybe I should find something fun to do instead
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0 u/asdghjklfghasldk 05 Mar 2016 04:43
Long read, confusing/obtuse notation with C* and "C" used to denote C optimized for an single platform and "ideal" "portable" C respectively. However Interesting in the end. Not sure it will make me avoid -O2/ -O3 flags or switch compilers, but I will keep this subtle C* "C" distinction in mind. Thank god I don't usually have to rely on "risky" behavior to get my crappy code to work.
1 u/rhabarba [OP] 07 Mar 2016 22:58
Maybe you should just write your own compiler which does not care. ;-)
0 u/asdghjklfghasldk 08 Mar 2016 14:31
hmm I guess when I said crappy code I wasn't clear about my lack of good programing techniques ...
and the paper clearly outlined that some people think its a hard thankless problem so maybe I should find something fun to do instead