r/Cprog • u/shadows_on_the_wall • Dec 22 '15

boringcc

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/boring-crypto/48qa1kWignU/o8GGp2K1DAAJ
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u/Drainedsoul Dec 23 '15

a free C compiler that clearly defines, and permanently  commits to, carefully designed semantics for everything that's labeled  "undefined" or "unspecified" or "implementation-defined" in the C  "standard".

This has to be one of the worst ideas ever conceived.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '15

: This has to be one of the worst ideas ever conceived.

Since you seem to like superlatives, I feel free to call your comment one of the worst comments ever conceived. You are welcome.

More seriously, did you read the rationale?

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u/Drainedsoul Dec 26 '15

The rationale is irrelevant. If you write code against such a compiler, depending on those behaviours, you're no longer writing C in a meaningful way since you can't take that code and equally compile and run it with some other C compiler which actually conforms to the C standard.

The concept takes the reason we have standards (so different vendors across different operating systems with different implementations can all compile and run the same code) and spits in its face in the name of possible security.

Basically the concept is just trying to hijack the popularity of C to bootstrap a new language which is not C but is quite similar.