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I'm not sure what you mean by 'keping the sanitizing check'?

A C program is basically a bunch of bytes, and the C standard tells you what those bytes are supposed to mean. A compiler's job is to translate the bytes into whatever target language you fancy, and making sure to preserve the proscribed behaviour. And that's exactly what the compiler did.



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