signed is undefined and has been since 1992 (in GCC)

Robert Dewar dewar@adacore.com
Sat Jul 2 23:20:00 GMT 2005


Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

> We need to be careful not to to substitute "illegal" for "undefined
> behaviour". GCC is not a court.

Note that in Ada, illegal is a technical term, it refers to a program
that fails to meet the syntactic or static semantic rules for a correct
Ada program, and must be rejected by an Ada compiler at compile time.




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