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Comment by pjc50

> because programs can't work without being specified.

Someone hasn't read the C spec, with all its specified as undefined behavior.

Programs working on real systems is very different from those systems being formally specified. I suspect that if you only had access to the pile of documentation and no real computer system - if you were an alien trying to reconstruct it, for example - you'd hit serious problems.

parent pjc50 5 years ago

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