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

Robert Dewar dewar@adacore.com
Tue Jun 28 22:19:00 GMT 2005


Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> Does anyone make substantial use of -ftrapv in production (whether as a 
> tool for detecting bugs, or as a security tool where the performance cost 
> is acceptable)?  Or is it still at the stage of being a tool which would 
> be useful in principle for some purposes but still needs some work 
> (including on optimizing checks to reduce the performance cost) to make it 
> useful in practice?

It is potentially useful in Ada, and we are investigating its use in
this context.



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