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omoikaneyesterday at 3:59 PM3 repliesview on HN

The article mentions it's a halt-on-error pattern:

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/09/16/cpp26-trivial-in...

Edit: sorry, missed the UB bit.


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Lvl999Noobyesterday at 4:09 PM

That says why they don't want it to be UB. The question, I believe, was why they want statically-known-infinite non-trivial loops to continue being UB.

pseudohadamardtoday at 8:27 AM

One minor nit, it's not halt-on-error, it's restart-on-error since the watchdog then restarts the system. The technical term for this is rejuvenation and it's standard practice in SCADA and similar to deal with this-shouldn't-happen error conditions.

rcxdudeyesterday at 4:05 PM

That's more why you would want them to be defined in the first place.