Is it OK that gcc optimizes away overflow check?

Vincent Lefevre vincent+gcc@vinc17.org
Sat Jul 30 23:30:00 GMT 2011


On 2011-07-25 17:21:42 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> gcc is already safe, though: we don't do any optimizations that
> generate incorrect code.

Not always (but bugs have been reported about incorrect optimizations).

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