Because properly handling overflow if you're using signed values involves UB, it's super hard to get it right.
Because properly handling overflow if you're using signed values involves UB, it's super hard to get it right. Even Apple has struggled with it: http://www.slashslash.info/2014/02/undefined-behavior-and-ap... If you get it wrong you can also see your program's behavior change with the compiler optimization level, which is incredibly frustrating (and causes a lot of "the compiler is buggy!" beliefs).
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This is the biggest problem with contracts, there's simply no way to actually say "please always execute this check".
I don't disagree with you on this, I worked my whole life in corporate and haven't worked as a OSS maintainer before, though I will _and ...
the new VSCode UI, looks cute, i don't like it.
I've been working on my own private harness for the past 8 months, and I've been collecting ideas from such repos I've stumbled upon.
The way AI is able to interact with outside resources is pretty impressive, but the quality of code it produces to me is still questionab...
Add PR-style review comments in Git Diff UI that feed into the active agent thread
Thanks for indulging me so far, by the way, I really appreciate this discussion, it's very stimulating.
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Because properly handling overflow if you're using signed values involves UB, it's super hard to get it right.
Because properly handling overflow if you're using signed values involves UB, it's super hard to get it right. Even Apple has struggled with it: http://www.slashslash.info/2014/02/undefined-behavior-and-ap... If you get it wrong you can also see your program's behavior change with the compiler optimization level, which is incredibly frustrating (and causes a lot of "the compiler is buggy!" beliefs).
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