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This post, written by someone who is or has been on the standardization committee gives a different point of view:

http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2014/08/31/undefi...

What always surprises me is that, when a new optimization comes out justified by a sentence in a dark corner of the C standard, you can usually trace the sentence back all the way to C90.

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>the members of the committee were rubbing their hands at the thought of all the optimizations the poorly specified ambiguous successive versions of the document would allow:

I couldn't find that in the blog post you linked?

You are right. Either I was thinking of another comment by Derek Jones (one of the two persons I know on the C standardization committee, which is otherwise quite opaque) or I projected my own image of a patiently malevolent committee on the phrase “doing stuff that we could only dream about back in the day” that he did not mean this way.

I have edited my comment.

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