Joke architecture about undefined behavior

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  There was a site, I think I remember seeing it on https://archive.org/web/ , that presented a very exotic non-existent imaginary architecture. The architecture was used as a joke when talking about undefined behavior and implementation defined behavior. Like it was a machine with the most ridiculous specification, where NULL bit pattern wouldn't be all zeros, numbers wouldn't be represented in twos complement but using some imaginary notation, floats would not have infinities, etc. The machine was a "joke", used to present or discuss the most odd behaviors permitted by the C standard. And like, of course, any implementation-defined behavior or undefined behavior on that machine would result in destruction of all life as we know it.

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