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From: | Robert Dewar |
Subject: | Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature? |
Date: | Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:18:46 -0500 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) |
Andrew Haley wrote:
> I suspect the actual argument must be somewhere else. I'm sure it is. The only purpose of my mail was to clarify what I meant by "nonstandard", which in this case was "not strictly conforming". I didn't intend to imply anything else.
But a compiler that implements wrap around IS strictly conforming. A program that takes advantage of it is depending on non-standard semantics, but then so is any program that uses floating-point and expects it to have IEEE semantics to any extent.
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