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

[Georg Bauhaus]

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> writes:
> 
> | Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> | 
> | But the whole idea of hardware semantics is bogus, since you are
> | assuming some connection between C and the hardware which does not
> | exist. C is not an assembly language.
> 
> If you live in a different world, you may not see the connection.

I'm not sure whether this isn't just C's self-fulfilling
prophecy at work: Many C programmers think that C is a high level
assembly language (at least in my real world).
They start using C as if it were...
Then they charge C for not being defined at the machine
language level. 


Georg