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From: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
To: Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>,
	       Mikael Morin <mikael.morin@sfr.fr>,
	       Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: gcc-patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] sext_hwi: Avoid left shift of negative value undefined behaviour
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 18:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55CB8B51.5080908@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F89F5949-3938-4F58-9C31-8BC0B217533B@gmail.com>

On 08/12/2015 11:12 AM, Richard Biener wrote:

>
> Prec is almost never a constant and is heavily used from wide-int.
>
> We are not exploiting this undefined ness in C so I object to making this so much slower.
>
> Can we instead do what we do for abs_hwi and add a checking assert so we can move the tests to the callers that misbehave instead?
Given that ISO C++ is moving away from making shifting 1 into the sign 
bit undefined behaviour, maybe we should make UBSan less strict in its 
warning.  That may eliminate the need for Mikael's patch.

jeff

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-12 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-06 10:26 Mikael Morin
2015-08-11 19:49 ` Jeff Law
2015-08-12 11:01   ` Richard Biener
2015-08-12 11:07     ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2015-08-12 11:09       ` Richard Biener
2015-08-12 13:34         ` Mikael Morin
2015-08-12 17:02           ` Jeff Law
2015-08-12 17:12             ` Richard Biener
2015-08-12 18:07               ` Jeff Law [this message]
2015-08-12 18:32                 ` Richard Biener
2015-08-12 18:41                   ` Jeff Law
2015-08-12 20:07                     ` Richard Sandiford
2015-08-12 20:53                       ` Mike Stump
2015-08-13 10:11                         ` Richard Biener
2015-08-13 18:01                           ` Mike Stump
2015-08-14  7:31                             ` Richard Biener
2015-08-18 15:35                               ` Mikael Morin
2015-08-18 17:51                                 ` Jeff Law
2015-08-13 11:03                       ` Mikael Morin
2015-08-13 11:06                         ` Mikael Morin
2015-08-13 11:09                         ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2015-08-13 11:20                           ` Richard Biener
2015-08-13 13:48                             ` Marek Polacek
2015-08-13 13:55                               ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2015-08-13 13:57                                 ` Marek Polacek
2015-08-12 19:20                 ` Mike Stump

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