I'm quite certain it has been done on purpose and in fact SierraC has may be choose because of that option.
That would make sure that ALL the test in an if are evaluated, that's sound stupid, but I'm nearly sure as this domain need everything to be provable that it need to evaluate all the tests.
The integer value 0, when used in a data pointer context, is implicitly converted to the null pointer, which may or may not have the bit representation of all zero bits. Th has been in Standard C since C90, I believe. Any #define you see with (void *)0 or similar construct are unnecessary and muddle the water.+1
In fact it has been standard since K&R
So there is this "bug" in a popular compiler about doing this:
uint64_t variable = 0;
Where it will only initialise the lower word of the variable and not the complete thing.
Since the 0 is of type int, which is int32_t for 32 bit system.
So there is this "bug" in a popular compiler about doing this:
uint64_t variable = 0;
Where it will only initialise the lower word of the variable and not the complete thing.
Since the 0 is of type int, which is int32_t for 32 bit system.
just to be polite, what was published in the first edition of K&R book (and then removed) seems written by the last jerk child on Earth: see the comments by who has rewritten it in the decent way!
I am very amused by these discussions where very experienced people talk about using casts as if they are safer. The only thing that casts do is destroy type safety and prevent warnings. In code with explicit casts, you will never be told that there is a type mismatch. The plain truth is that in strongly-typed languages, casts do not exist.
Java's objects are extremely strongly typed, and typesafe downcasts are frequently used. If the downcast is invalid, an exception is thrown.
In C/C++, casts are used to say "I'm lying" or "I can't specify it, but I believe it is true".
I am very amused by these discussions where very experienced people talk about using casts as if they are safer. The only thing that casts do is destroy type safety and prevent warnings. In code with explicit casts, you will never be told that there is a type mismatch. The plain truth is that in strongly-typed languages, casts do not exist.
The things which C is good at occasionally require flexibility in the type system.
I am very amused by these discussions where very experienced people talk about using casts as if they are safer. The only thing that casts do is destroy type safety and prevent warnings. In code with explicit casts, you will never be told that there is a type mismatch. The plain truth is that in strongly-typed languages, casts do not exist.Sorry, but this is nonsense. Of course strongly typed languages as Java use casts. Actually, in Java you are forced to use a cast if the correctness of an assignment/comparison can't be statically checked to be safe. In C, you can more or less assign everything to everything. Then again if you use a static code checker as Lint, the behavior is similar to the default Java compiler: every unsafe assignment/comparison needs an explicit cast to force the developer to think about the cross-type operation. Of course just using casts without thinking about it, doesn't improve the situation. But for a decent programmer, these hints are very useful to detect cross-type operations that happened by mistake.
I am very amused by these discussions where very experienced people talk about using casts as if they are safer. The only thing that casts do is destroy type safety and prevent warnings. In code with explicit casts, you will never be told that there is a type mismatch. The plain truth is that in strongly-typed languages, casts do not exist.Sorry, but this is nonsense. Of course strongly typed languages as Java use casts. Actually, in Java you are forced to use a cast if the correctness of an assignment/comparison can't be statically checked to be safe. In C, you can more or less assign everything to everything. Then again if you use a static code checker as Lint, the behavior is similar to the default Java compiler: every unsafe assignment/comparison needs an explicit cast to force the developer to think about the cross-type operation. Of course just using casts without thinking about it, doesn't improve the situation. But for a decent programmer, these hints are very useful to detect cross-type operations that happened by mistake.
I'm just a casual Java programmer, but I believe the cast there is either an upcast or downcast that traverses an object hierarchy and trying to perform an unsafe downcast, e.g. an (String)x when x is an object that is actually an integer will cause a runtime ClassCastException. All upcasts are safe.
Contrast this to C where a similar cast is just accepted by the compiler and the runtime results are undefined.
I have understand that it has been done on purpose because the software has to be validated by VectorCast within level B, so every if () statement has to be evaluated in deeply
The lack of a true boolean type in C is usually considered a flaw.
Java's objects are extremely strongly typed, and typesafe downcasts are frequently used. If the downcast is invalid, an exception is thrown.
String[] strings = new String[1];
Object[] objects = strings;
objects[0] = new Integer(1);
Sorry, but this is nonsense. Of course strongly typed languages as Java use casts. Actually, in Java you are forced to use a cast if the correctness of an assignment/comparison can't be statically checked to be safe.
Java's objects are extremely strongly typed, and typesafe downcasts are frequently used. If the downcast is invalid, an exception is thrown.Interesting equivocation. Are you saying that only the "objects" are strongly typed, and the rest of the language doesn't count?
In Java you can break the integrity of the type system as soon as you declare an array.Code: [Select]String[] strings = new String[1];
Object[] objects = strings;
objects[0] = new Integer(1);Sorry, but this is nonsense. Of course strongly typed languages as Java use casts. Actually, in Java you are forced to use a cast if the correctness of an assignment/comparison can't be statically checked to be safe.If a program can't be verified to be type-correct at compile time then the language isn't strongly typed. All of the dozens of languages with Hindley-Milner type systems are decidable at compile time. The rest are pretenders.
And then they wonder why their product quality isn't that good
It was armcc 5.03.0.76 to be precise