Where does the C standard describe overflow of signed integers?

Georg Bauhaus bauhaus@futureapps.de
Sat Jul 16 12:12:00 GMT 2005


Paul Schlie wrote:

>>From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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>>>Paul Schlie wrote:
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>>>>From: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
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>>>> this would mean you could not put local variables in
>>>>registers. the effect on code quality woul be awful!
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>>>Why would anyone care about the performance of an access to an
>>>un-initialized variable? 
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>>You can have both, correctness and uninitialised local
>>variables. For an impression of the difference in performance,
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>- which predominantly illustrates the effect of volatile semantics?
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>
I was looking for a way to stop GCC from using registers,
as I wanted to see one of the above mentioned effects
on code quality. Hence volatile.


-- Georg



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