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

Falk Hueffner falk@debian.org
Tue Jun 28 22:16:00 GMT 2005


"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:

> Does -ftrapv ever take advantage of trapping instructions where the
> hardware has them available?

Yes, for example Alpha.

> Does anyone make substantial use of -ftrapv in production

There are rarely bug reports about it; for example pointer difference
with odd sized objects was broken for years, and reported only twice
or so.

-- 
	Falk



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