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

Robert Dewar dewar@adacore.com
Tue Jun 28 21:59:00 GMT 2005


Joe Buck wrote:

> I challenge you, Robert, to find us a C compiler that generates trapping
> instructions for integer adds by default.  I do not believe that such a
> compiler exists.

Probably there is no production compiler that does, MIPS would be the only
possibility I think in practice. Certainly there are checkout debugging
compilers that detect undefined operations.




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