Sure, but then you deserve what you get...
Posted May 28, 2011 20:46 UTC (Sat) by
BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)
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Sure, but then you deserve what you get... by foom
Parent article:
What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior #3/3
Signed overflow *ought to have been* implementation defined in C from the beginning, not undefined.
Signed overflow results in an exception on some processors. So the range of permissible implementation-defined behaviour would have to include: the program aborts. Slightly better than the current situation, but not much.
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