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From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia@physics.uc.edu>
Subject: Re: signed is undefined and has been since 1992 (in GCC)
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:13:00 -0000
To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
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On Jun 28, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Olivier Galibert wrote:

>
>>   Well, I don't utterly _anything_ about either his position or 
>> yours.  C is
>> not just a high level assembler, it has complex and abstract semantics
>> imposed on that;
>
> Yes.  But C is _also_ a high level assembler, and ignoring that is 
> foolish.

No it is not. It was when it was designed yes but since the C standard 
has
come out and the aliasing rules really show that it is not a high level
assembler language any more.

-- Pinski