Ada front-end depends on signed overflow

Florian Weimer fw@deneb.enyo.de
Tue Jun 7 07:56:00 GMT 2005


* Robert Dewar:

> Defintiely not, integer overflow generates async traps on very few
> architectures. Certainly synchronous traps can be generated (e.g.
> with into on the x86).

Or the JO jump instruction.  Modern CPUs choke on the INTO
instruction.



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