The current concern is undefined behavior, UB – what it is, what it means and how to avoid it. However, as we have just seen, before undefined behavior hit the C headlines, we had unobservable ...

But I've never seen anyone argue that since integer overflow is undefined, the compiler is free to assume it cannot happen and optimize accordingly. In response to this, the only reasonable response ...

As a professor of biomedical engineering, Martin Uecker perhaps does not fit the profile of a typical presenter at Kernel Recipes. He is, however, a longtime Linux user, and works on free software for ...

Even if you are a fairly expert C user, you may not know about undefined behavior, and if you do you might not realize what a problem it has become. A new critique suggests it is every bit as bad as ...

On June 4, 1996, the Ariane 5 rocket was launched, carrying a constellation of four research satellites. Approximately 30 seconds after liftoff, the rocket exploded. The subsequent investigation found ...