how to make gcc warn about arithmetic signed overflow
Andrew Haley
aph@redhat.com
Thu Sep 26 14:49:00 GMT 2013
On 09/26/2013 09:29 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2013-09-25 22:29:58 -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
>> You mean that a naïve rendering of the source code implies an overflow
>> where none might exist in the actual emitted object code. And,
>> presumably, the converse: that even if the source is written such that
>> there logically can't be an overflow, the compiler might render object
>> code that does.
>
> The converse is forbidden.
You'll find it hard to justify that by any language in the standard.
Andrew.
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