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This is my life now, until I finally understand Cmake. (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Which will probably be never.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Machine code would be a better example of what he's talking about imo. Not an expert or anything of course.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Odds are that your computer doesn't export any language where it will do exactly as you say (amd64 machine code certainly won't execute exactly as written). And how much difference it makes varies from one language to another.

But the specific example from the OP, of uninitialized variables, is one of those cases where the C spec famously goes completely out of line and says your code can do whatever, run with a random value, fail, initialize it, format your hard drive, make a transaction on your bank account... whatever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Coding in C but if I don't initialize a Variable the compiler formats my drive! (Not Clickbait)