Posted on 2023-08-12, in Programming, tagged with recommended reading, c, rust

Pointers are Complicated

This article explains why compilers need the concept of Undefined Behavior to allow optimizations

https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2018/07/24/pointers-and-bytes.html

Key Takeaway:

• Just because two pointers point to the same address, does not mean they are equal and can be used interchangeably.