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From: "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com>
To: "'Nicholas Nethercote'" <njn@cs.utexas.edu>, <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Where does the C standard describe overflow of signed integers?
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SERRANO0kY8fNp0VatC0000048c@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0507110948081.20206@charco.cs.utexas.edu>

----Original Message----
>From: Nicholas Nethercote
>Sent: 11 July 2005 15:59

> 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.

  Anything not defined is undefined, by definition!

>  Can someone point me to the relevant part(s) of the standard?

  :) I can only point you at the whole thing, where it doesn't define it
anywhere.

  See also 3.4.3/3, and H.2.2.

    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-11 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-11 14:58 Nicholas Nethercote
2005-07-11 15:07 ` Dave Korn [this message]
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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