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From: Nicholas Nethercote <njn@cs.utexas.edu>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Where does the C standard describe overflow of signed integers?
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0507110948081.20206@charco.cs.utexas.edu> (raw)

Hi,

There was recently a very long thread about the overflow behaviour of 
signed integers in C.  Apparently this is undefined according to the C 
standard.  I searched the standard on this matter, and while I did find 
some paragraphs that described how unsigned integers must wrap around upon 
overflow, I couldn't find anything explicit about signed integers.  Can 
someone point me to the relevant part(s) of the standard?

Also, does anyone know what the required behaviour for Fortran integers is 
on overflow?

(I realise this isn't exactly on-topic for this list, but I thought it 
reasonable to ask since this topic was discussed so enthusiastically 
recently :)

Thanks very much.

Nick

             reply	other threads:[~2005-07-11 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-11 14:58 Nicholas Nethercote [this message]
2005-07-11 15:07 ` Dave Korn
2005-07-11 16:07   ` Nicholas Nethercote
2005-07-11 17:04     ` Dave Korn
2005-07-11 15:15 ` Nathan Sidwell
2005-07-11 15:23   ` Dave Korn
2005-07-11 15:18 ` Overflow in Fortran (was: Where does the C standard describe overflow of signed integers?) Paul Brook
2005-07-12 23:13 ` Where does the C standard describe overflow of signed integers? Michael Meissner
2005-07-14  1:10 Paul Schlie
2005-07-14  1:59 ` Robert Dewar
2005-07-14  5:28   ` Paul Schlie
2005-07-14 17:57 ` Matthew Woodcraft
2005-07-14 18:36   ` Paul Koning
2005-07-14 19:09 Paul Schlie
2005-07-14 19:13 ` Robert Dewar
2005-07-14 19:28   ` Paul Schlie
2005-07-14 19:33     ` Robert Dewar
2005-07-14 20:13       ` Paul Schlie
2005-07-15 13:20         ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-07-15 13:33           ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-07-15 14:31           ` Dave Korn
2005-07-16 12:04             ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-07-16 14:26               ` Paul Schlie
2005-07-15 15:03           ` Paul Schlie
2005-07-16 12:12             ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-07-14 20:35     ` Paul Koning
2005-07-14 21:58       ` Paul Schlie
2005-07-15  7:04         ` Avi Kivity

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