Reducing undefined behavior in the C language

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Or consider this simple code: x = b ? 42 : 43; zero, which is undefined behavior. In the undefined-behavior case, the store to x is not observable behavior. If there are no semantics associated with the b = 0 case, then there is no change in observable behavior.

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