signed is undefined and has been since 1992 (in GCC)
Andrew Pinski
pinskia@physics.uc.edu
Tue Jun 28 19:13:00 GMT 2005
On Jun 28, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Olivier Galibert wrote:
>
>> Well, I don't utterly _anything_ about either his position or
>> yours. C is
>> not just a high level assembler, it has complex and abstract semantics
>> imposed on that;
>
> Yes. But C is _also_ a high level assembler, and ignoring that is
> foolish.
No it is not. It was when it was designed yes but since the C standard
has
come out and the aliasing rules really show that it is not a high level
assembler language any more.
-- Pinski
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