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> And my point is those if statement are wanted by the people that write high reliability software in C.

Because that's basically the only way of handling errors in C. That kind of software is written despite C's poor error handling, not because of it, and frankly, C is not the best example in writing high reliability software. Undefined behavior is a huge issue with it.




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