It seems that gcc is up to some creative reinterpretation of basic C
semantics again; specifically, you can no longer trust that traditional
C semantics of integer overflow hold:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175462
While I don't think we are anywhere using exactly the same trick that
the referenced mysql code is using, it certainly seems likely to me that
a compiler that is willing to replace "x < 0 && -x < 0" with "false"
might be able to break some of the integer overflow checks we do use.
I think we need to add -fwrapv to CFLAGS anytime the compiler will take
it, same as we recently started doing with -fno-strict-aliasing.
Comments?
regards, tom lane
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