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   Message 130,183 of 131,241   
   Anton Ertl to Niklas Holsti   
   Re: branch splitting   
   07 Nov 25 08:06:41   
   
   From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at   
      
   Niklas Holsti  writes:   
   >On 2025-11-06 11:43, Michael S wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 5 Nov 2025 17:26:44 +0200   
   >> Niklas Holsti  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2025-11-05 7:17, Anton Ertl wrote:   
   >>>> Why does standard C not have it?  C had it up to and including the   
   >>>> 6th edition Unix <3714DA77.6150C99A@bell-labs.com>, but it went away   
   >>>> between 6th and 7th edition.  Ritchie wrote   
   >>>> <37178013.A1EE3D4F@bell-labs.com>:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> | I eliminated them because I didn't know what to say about their   
   >>>> | semantics.   
   ...   
   >> Yes, UB sounnds as the best answer..   
   >   
   >The point is that Ritchie was not satisfied with that answer, which is   
   >why he removed labels-as-values from his version of C.   
      
   He did not write that, and given the rest of C, I very much doubt that   
   this was the reason.   
      
   - anton   
   --   
   'Anyone trying for "industrial quality" ISA should avoid undefined behavior.'   
     Mitch Alsup,    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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