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Re: signed is undefined and has been since 1992 (in GCC)
Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> writes:
| Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
|
| But the whole idea of hardware semantics is bogus, since you are
| assuming some connection between C and the hardware which does not
| exist. C is not an assembly language.
If you live in a different world, you may not see the connection.
I'm not sure whether this isn't just C's self-fulfilling
prophecy at work: Many C programmers think that C is a high level
assembly language (at least in my real world).
They start using C as if it were...
Then they charge C for not being defined at the machine
language level.
Georg