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Re: PATCH RFC: -fstrict-overflow

Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:

[...]

| > * signed overflow traps (flag_trapv)
| 
| Here, we still make a promise, but not an assumption.  The compiler
| promises that any overflow will result in a trap.  This is a variant of
| the language in which signed arithmetic has defined semantics: it causes
| a trap.

This also conforms to LIA-1 semantics.

-- Gaby
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