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

Robert Dewar dewar@adacore.com
Tue Jun 28 12:08:00 GMT 2005


Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

> I saw your passsword example but I think it is largely beside the point.
> I'm not interested in programming "undefined behaviour".  I'm looking
> for way to take advantage of that liberty we accept more useful
> programs where we can.

The password example is just an example of possible evil effects of
taking advantage of undefined. If anything it is an argument for your
point of view :-)



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