[PATCH] Clarify that -fwrapv covers all signed arithmetic overflow
Joseph Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
Tue Nov 17 15:27:00 GMT 2015
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Can you suggest a wording for "if the GNU C language definition changes
> [which, no matter how unlikely, is explicitly not ruled out by the
> manual] -fwrapv will be extended to signed shifts, and shifts of
> negative numbers would return A*2^B whenever the result fits in the type"?
I don't think we can usefully say how a hypothetical change in one area
would or would not affect a particular option.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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