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Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?

Andrew Haley wrote:
Robert Dewar writes:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
> > > We've already defined `-fwrapv' for people who need nonstandard
> > arithmetic.
> > Nonstandard implies that the result does not conform with the standard,

I don't think it does; it merely implies that any program which
requires "-fwrapv" for correct execution is not a strictly conforming
program.

OK, well if you say to people

gcc is a nonstandard implementation of C99, most people will read that
to indicate that it is non-conforming, so I suggest avoiding this term.

Andrew.

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