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

From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
To: Olivier Galibert <galibert at pobox dot com>
Cc: "'Gabriel Dos Reis'" <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>, "'Robert Dewar'" <dewar at adacore dot com>, "'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 15:13:00 -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>

On Jun 28, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Olivier Galibert wrote:

Well, I don't utterly _anything_ about either his position or yours. C is not just a high level assembler, it has complex and abstract semantics imposed on that;
Yes. But C is _also_ a high level assembler, and ignoring that is foolish.

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.

-- Pinski

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  - From: Gabriel Dos Reis

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)
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