Programmer Humor

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[–] chellomere@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago*

No, because it's UB, the compiler is free to do whatever, like making demons fly out of your nose

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

++x;

[–] damium@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The underutilized ~~post~~ pre increment operator.

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

for (int y = MIN_INT; y &lt;= MAX_INT; y++) {
        if (y == x + 1) {
                x = y;
        }
}

(Not sure there's a way to prevent Lemmy from escaping my left angle bracket. I definitely didn't type ampersand-el-tee-semicolon. You'll just have to squint and pretend. I'm using the default lemmy-ui frontend.)

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[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

y <= MAX_INT will never be false, since the loop will overflow and wrap around to MIN_INT

(You can escape code with `backticks`, and regular markdown rules)

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[–] mormegil@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It will not "overflow". Signed integer overflow is undefined behavior. The compiler could remove the whole loop or do anything else imaginable (or not).

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

TIL!

I wonder how many languages out there do define what happens on integer overflow.

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[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago

Languages with dynamic typing and implicit large-integer types, such as Python and Ruby, generally just convert to that large-integer type.

I figured Java would probably define the behavior in the JVM, but based on a quick web search it sounds like it probably doesn't by default, but does provide library methods to add or subtract safely.

Rust guarantees a panic by default, but provides library methods for wrapping, saturating, and unchecked (i.e. unsafely opting back in to undefined behavior).

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

Oh good call! What I was trying to do is more complex than I was thinking.

Hmmmmm.

int f = TRUE;
for (int y = MIN_INT; f || y - 1 &lt; y; y++) {
  f = FALSE;
  if (y == x + 1) {
    x = y;
  }
}

(I should just test my code to make sure it works, but I haven't. Heh.)

Also, Lemmy escaped your angle bracket too. Back ticks don't seem to do the trick.

Block: &lt;

Inline: <

Or were you suggesting back ticks for some other purpose? (I did use back ticks in my first post in this thread.)

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[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 2 years ago

The backticks worked in the preview, and showed up correctly to start, but there must be a bug in the lemmy ui, since now it's double-escaped. No idea /shrug

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[+] henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 point 2 years ago

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[–] nybble41@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I'm fairly certain that last one is UB in C. The result of an assignment operator is not an lvalue, and even if it were it's UB (at least in C99) to modify the stored value of an object more than once between two adjacent sequence points. It might work in C++, though.

[–] Beanie@programming.dev 1 point 2 years ago

That was my first thought when trying to figure out what it did