[PATCH][4.3] Deprecate -ftrapv
Paolo Bonzini
bonzini@gnu.org
Sat Mar 1 14:25:00 GMT 2008
> I missed once point noticed by Joseph also, that the libgcc implementation
> uses signed types in the implementation of the trapping arithmetics.
> Where we of course optimize away the overflow check, so the libgcc
> routines will never trap. (if it does work in some cases then this
> would be a missed optimization, so sooner or later it is going to
> break more)
In theory, if -ftrapv worked properly and at the compiler level (no
libcalls), the implementation of __addvsi3 could be just
return a + b;
compiled with -ftrapv itself...
Paolo
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