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


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).


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