[PATCH] Document arithmetic overflow semantics

[Phil Edwards]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:04:46PM +0100, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> | This thread is impossible two follow,
> 
> I would like to second Neil here: Although I enjoy reading
> contributions by Robert Dewar and Richard Kenner, I find the failure
> of their mailers to insert appropriate references very discouraging to
> the point that, most of the time, I just press the 'D' key and pass on
> much readable threads.  
> 
> :-(

You both have much more patience than I do; this thread has been going
straight to the 'delete' bin ever since I logged in and saw that the
"thread tree" was one long line, straight down.

It's hard enough to decode and mentally reorganize the output of
-fdump-translation-unit.  There's no excuse for needing to do the same
thing to email.

Phil

-- 
I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How
not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met.
                                                 - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002