[Info-vax] VMS Cobol - GnuCOBOL

[bill]

On 2/28/2023 2:11 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
> 
> 
> Consider, for example, this segment of code:
> 
> unsigned short
> mul(unsigned short a, unsigned short b)
> {
> 	return a * b;
> }
> 


I have always considered this to be really stupid code.
For the vast majority of values for a and b this is going to
overflow.  That means that regardless of what "undefined behavior"
actually means the result will be useless.

What were we just saying about programmers not writing buggy code?

bill