[PATCH] C undefined behavior fix

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
> The programmer didn't lay out "a" and "b" consecutively in memory, at
> least if the above code is from a C program.

In Richards example he did, by selecting sections etc for them.

> >  - the C language clearly _does_ have different rules for pointer
> >    arithmetic and for "integer arithmetic with cast pointers" (the first
> >    one ends up being undefined and allows more aggressive optimization,
> >    while the second one is implementation-defined and thus tends to
> >    disallow some of those optimizations).
>
> Repeating this over and over again doesn't make it true.

Yeah yeah, too bad you can't read.

		Linus