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Re: GCC optimization bug?

On 17/01/17 12:11, Mason wrote:
> Jeffrey's link to Ian's blog seems to clear some of the confusion.
> http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/120

Well, yeah, but clearly that blog is wrong:

> There is a clear difference on a processor which does not use
> ordinary twos-complement arithmetic: -fwrapv requires
> twos-complement overflow, and -fno-strict-overflow does
> not. However, no such processor is in common use today. In practice,
> I think that the code generated by the two options will always
> behave the same.

Andrew.
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