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Subject: Re: how to make gcc warn about arithmetic signed overflow
From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
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On 23 September 2013 16:47, James K. Lowden wrote:
>
> 7.1.6 is itself mutable, it turns out.  My yellowed ARM, copyright
> 1990, is considerably more relaxed on the question. (And considerably
> easier to read.  I don't know how anyone learns C++ these days, so
> dense is the technical terminology.)

The standard isn't meant to be a tutorial and noone should try to
learn C++ from the standard. Stroustrup's 4th edition of The C++
Programming Language is much easier to read (but not all that much
shorter) than the standard.