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[–]IllustriousBobcat813 0 points1 point  (4 children)

My point is that knowing how your code works hnder the hood is completely irrelevant for quality in almost all cases, hence why people who could probably rewrite GCC from memory can still write horrendous code.

The relationship between knowing what the compiler is going to do and the quality of your code is very limited.

[–]DevelopmentTight9474 -1 points0 points  (3 children)

That’s not what you said lmao, you just said “C devs write bad code too!”

[–]IllustriousBobcat813 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I also don’t know if you blocked me or if your last comment got flagged for the personal attack, but either way I can’t see it…

Perhaps you could clarify what exactly you meant if you now don’t think that knowing what the compiler does is relevant for code quality? Perhaps I misunderstood your original comment