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Fun fact: C doesn't even guarantee
a + b == a + b
*If a and b are
float
Or signed integers because overflow is undefined. It could do the left-hand computation in two's complement and the right hand in sign-magnitude, leading to different results. Or, as it's undefined, it could brew you some coffee and serve it with an aspirin.
C doesn't even guarantee a == a
That's decidedly unfun and headhurty for those of us less mathemstically inclined. Also so deep into the theoretical weeds that I'm not sure that "fact" applies..
One night I dreamt about the new C standard. It was a tome of ten thousand pages, in dense, tiny, font, three columns of text on each page, and it was all headings and sub-headings interspersed with nothing but either "undefined" or "implementation-defined".