On 2013-04-21, Paul Sokolovsky <pmis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:06:51 -0500 Peter Bigot <big...@acm.org> wrote:
>
>> This decision was intentional, as documented in
>> https://sourceforge.net/p/mspgcc/bugs/118/.  My recollection is that
>> the choice of how to make things consistent was informed by similar
>> behavior in the contemporaneous gcc for x86 or at least one other
>> target architecture.
>
> Thanks for the reference. So, I tested it with x86 gcc 4.4, 4.5, 4.6,
> 4.7 (packages as shipped by Ubuntu), all of them produce
> mathematically expected result.

That's irrelevent.

> msp430-gcc 4.5.3, 4.7.0 both produce unexpected result.

That's per the standard.  If you write code that depends on some
particular behavior for somethign that's "undefined", then that code
is wrong.

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