Re: /internet

[Chip Salzenberg <chip at perlsupport dot com>]

According to Joe Buck:
> NCEG:
> >        Thus,  the result of the sum (a + 32760) is next added to b,
> >        and that result is then added to  5  which  results  in  the
> >        value  assigned  to  a.   On  a  machine  in which overflows
> >        produce an explicit trap and in which the  range  of  values
> >        representable   by   an   int   is   [-32768,  +32767],  the
> >        implementation cannot rewrite this expression as
> > 
> >                a = ((a + b) + 32765);
> 
> Amazing.  These guys are trying to turn C into Ada.

Hey, it only applies to machines where integer overflows trap.  Would
it be a problem to say that EGCS targets should never include such
environments?  Integer overflow traps are almost unheard of in C.
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