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> let implementations define the behavior themselves

That's literally the definition of implementation-defined behavior.

Undefined behavior really means undefined; in terms of the C language, there are no constraints on behavior. Sure, you might get a result one way on one implementation, but if you rely on that you're technically writing a dialect of C, and need to let the compiler know using flags.




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