Signed integer overflow undefined behavior or not?
Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Nov 13 03:06:29 PST 2015
On Friday, 13 November 2015 at 10:20:53 UTC, Don wrote:
> Oh, I like that! That does seem to be the best of both worlds.
> Then, as a QOI issue, the compiler can try to detect the error.
> If it does not detect the error, it MUST provide the two's
> complement result. It is not allowed to do any weird stuff.
That would be a silly restriction that nobody would need to care
about. If the user cannot assume wrapping then compiler vendors
will make more aggressive optimizations available.
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