aliasing

[Andreas Schwab]

On Mär 18 2024, David Brown wrote:

> I think it would be possible to have an implementation where "signed
> char" was 8-bit two's complement except that 0x80 would be a trap
> representation rather than -128.

signed char cannot have padding bits, thus it cannot have a trap
representation.

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