alt Hacker NewsI disagree. Modern C with C17 and C23 make this less of an issue. Sure, some vendors suck and some people take shortcuts with embedded systems, but the standard is there and adopted by GCC, Clang and even MSVC has shaped up a bit.
I disagree. Modern C with C17 and C23 make this less of an issue. Sure, some vendors suck and some people take shortcuts with embedded systems, but the standard is there and adopted by GCC, Clang and even MSVC has shaped up a bit.
> GCC, Clang and even MSVC
Well, if that is the standard for portability then may_alias might as well be standard. GCC and Clang support it and MSVC doesn't implement the affected optimization as far as I can find.