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

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> writes:

| Olivier Galibert wrote:
| 
| > Calling a large part of the programs out there, including a non
| > negligible subpart of what I personally write either "blatantly buggy"
| > or "subtly-incorrect" is somewhat childish and insulting.
| 
| nope, I don't see it that way at all, this is just a statement of fact
| wrt the ISO standard. You may want C or C++ to be different from what
| it is, but the standard is widely accepted,

Those standards are widely accepted and so are very facts that they do
have connections with hardware.  In fact, the respective committees
do work seriously on producing TRs for embedded systems and access to
hardware semantics. 

-- Gaby