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Re: [PATCH] Fix PR26898, 2nd try


On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Richard Guenther wrote:
> 
> > On 3/31/06, Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > > I take it that at this point in folding it is guaranteed that the
> > > constants are non-negative, i.e. you don't have to deal with "X + -1" or
> > > "X - -1"?
> > 
> > Hmm I thought they were canonicalized - but now I verified they are not.
> > *sigh*  Are there any problems with treating X - -1 as X + 1?
> 
> No, though you can't fold X + INT_MIN or X - INT_MIN that way.  (But 
> the optimization is still valid as applied to X + INT_MIN CMP Y - INT_MAX 
> converted to X - 1 CMP Y.)

Based on the reasoning that abs(-1) <= abs(INT_MIN), correct?

Richard.


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