Matthew Garrett on Nostr: Today's discovery: gcc will remove calls to memcpy() with a len of 0 (good), knows ...
Today's discovery: gcc will remove calls to memcpy() with a len of 0 (good), knows it's UB to call memcpy() with a dest of NULL (spec compliant), will assume that dest can't be NULL (fucking compilers, man), will combine both to engage in this UTTERLY PATHOLOGICAL BEHAVIOUR
https://godbolt.org/z/cPdx6v13rPublished at
2024-12-11 15:33:09Event JSON
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