• calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I recently came across a rust book on how pointers aren’t just ints, because of UB.

    fn main() {
        a = &1
        b = &2
        a++
        if a == b {
            *a = 3
            print(b)
        }
    }
    

    This may either: not print anything, print 3 or print 2.

    Depending on the compiler, since b isn’t changed at all, it might optimize the print for print(2) instead of print(b). Even though everyone can agree that it should either not print anything or 3, but never 2.