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Re: signed is undefined and has been since 1992 (in GCC)

From: Robert Dewar <dewar at adacore dot com>
To: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
Cc: Olivier Galibert <galibert at pobox dot com>, 'Gabriel Dos Reis' <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>,'gcc mailing list' <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, 'Andrew Haley' <aph at redhat dot com>, Dave Korn <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:20:01 -0400
Subject: Re: signed is undefined and has been since 1992 (in GCC)
References: <20050628180203.GG52889@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <SERRANOVkwyBnVBwYkm00000277@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <20050628191006.GI52889@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <882882640c20778910272cdd8e19eff4@physics.uc.edu>

Andrew Pinski wrote:

No it is not. It was when it was designed yes but since the C standard has
come out and the aliasing rules really show that it is not a high level
assembler language any more.


Even when it was designed there was more abstraction than you think (e.g.
cannot convert *char value to *int, cannot compare addresses in different
allocated objects).

Follow-Ups:
- Re: signed is undefined and has been since 1992 (in GCC)
  - From: Joe Buck

References:
- Re: signed is undefined and has been since 1992 (in GCC)
  - From: Olivier Galibert
- RE: signed is undefined and has been since 1992 (in GCC)
  - From: Dave Korn
- Re: signed is undefined and has been since 1992 (in GCC)
  - From: Olivier Galibert
- Re: signed is undefined and has been since 1992 (in GCC)
  - From: Andrew Pinski

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