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simonasktoday at 8:54 AM1 replyview on HN

Intuitively yes - the program will be compiled as if B-inputs are never passed to the program, and that can include eliminating code that tries to detect B-inputs.


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mbrocktoday at 10:15 AM

This is a description of an imaginary compiler, evoked by the ANSI/ISO standards documents, which has never existed and will never exist. To understand what the program will do, you just have to understand the compiler behavior on your target platforms. A helpful intuition pump is: imagine the ANSI/ISO specifications simply do not exist; now what? Well, you just continue your engineering practice, the way you would for any of the myriad languages that never even had a post hoc standards document.

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