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Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?
- From: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 02:45:03 +0000
- Subject: Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?
- References: <006601c723df$49a75250$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
> > Actually they will with multi threaded program, since you can have a case
> > where it works and now it is broken because one thread has speed up so
> > much it writes to a variable which had a copy on another thread's stack.
>
> Why isn't that just a buggy program with wilful disregard for the use of
> correct synchronisation techniques?
As opposed to a buggy program with wilful disregard for signed overflow
semantics? ;-)
Paul