[LLVMdev] C as used/implemented in practice: analysis of responses

Russell Wallace russell.wallace at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 12:25:27 PDT 2015


On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Smith, Kevin B <kevin.b.smith at intel.com>
wrote:

>  The specified semantics of the programming language, or of LLVM IR since
>
> that itself is a programming language is what the user (or FE that uses
> LLVM IR as its output) can rely on, nothing else.
>

And what I advocate is that the specified semantics of LLVM IR be changed
to improve the reliability of typical code (which, as the survey shows, in
practice does already rely on things most programmers intuitively rely on).
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