[PATCH][4.3] Deprecate -ftrapv

Richard Kenner kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu
Sat Mar 1 14:12:00 GMT 2008


> No one needs a broken anything, 

Not necessarily and perhaps not in this case.  Let's suppose there was
an implementation of -ftrapv that did trap, but only about 80% of the
time.  Such an implementation would nevertheless be useful in C since
there overflow is not a required feature of the language, but merely
useful, and you could well argue that it's better to catch 80% of the
overflows than 0%. But for Ada, it's a language requirement that we
catch *all* overflows, so an implementation that was 80% correct there
isn't useful at all since an alternate one is required.



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