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On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 02:10:08PM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> Compilers understand you want exactly what you wrote.  If you write
> something other than what you want, you only will get what you want by
> pure luck.

The problem is that at times you _can't_ write what you want because the
language offers no way to express it.

Alan