SIMPLE: A language-independent tree IR
Joe Buck
jbuck@synopsys.COM
Wed Jan 2 15:16:00 GMT 2002
Joseph:
> > There may be other C assumptions in the current tree forms to consider and
> > maybe change - for example, are the C rules that overflow of signed
> > integer arithmetic is undefined appropriate for all languages, or is this
> > another matter that should be explicitly represented in the various forms?
Toon:
> Fortran doesn't even define the concept of overflowing of INTEGERs
> (which are always signed in arithmetic context).
... which is the same as C (behavior of int addition overflow is not
defined, so the fortran and C compilers generate integer addition
instructions and the user gets whatever the machine does).
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