[PATCH] Document arithmetic overflow semantics
Robert Dewar
dewar@gnat.com
Thu Feb 13 18:54:00 GMT 2003
> The fact that the behaviour of overflow is undefined in C, C++ and Ada
> does not mean that "overflow cannot occur". Quite clearly overflows do
> occur, and the optimizers are paralyzed by the semantics in this event.
Since this quote is being repeated many times, it is perhaps worth
emphasizing that overflow *is* defined in Ada, and indeed the most
important thing that Ada needs from gcc is efficient code for arithmetic
operations that trap on overflow :-)
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