Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | * Robert Dewar: | | > I am puzzled, why would *ANYONE* who knows C use int | > rather than unsigned if they want wrap around semantics? | | Both OpenSSL and Apache programmers did this, in carefully reviewed | code which was written in response to a security report. They simply | didn't know that there is a potential problem. The reason for this | gap in knowledge isn't quite clear to me. | | Probably it's hard to accept for hard-code C coders that a program | which generates correct machine code with all GCC versions released so | far (modulo bugs in GCC) can still be illegal C and exhibit undefined
We need to be careful not to to substitute "illegal" for "undefined behaviour". GCC is not a court. Part from that, I maintain that we should not apply "undfeined behaviour" whole sale. -- Gaby
