&gt;It sounds as if the root of the problem is the C standard. Wouldn&#x27;t it be better to fix that<p>Isn&#x27;t the reason for a lot of undefined behavior either in the name of performance through optimization and assumptions, portability because the implementation can just do whatever the underlying platform natively does or the committee just couldn&#x27;t agree on it?<p>All three of those scenarios appear inherently unfixable to me without a separate sub-standard that intentionally clamps down on performance&#x2F;ease of portability and actually gets the committee to agree.