C89
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The 1989 ANSI C standard that defined portable semantics for the C language.
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- 5Hacker News·10/9/2026researchReducing undefined behavior in C
Martin Uecker discussed how C's undefined behavior arose from the language's historical need to support diverse hardware and an abstract machine model. He argued that while undefined behavior helps compilers optimize and preserve portability, it also creates ambiguity and debate over what programs are actually allowed to do.