Many good points [LWN.net]

Many good points

Posted Nov 9, 2007 4:14 UTC (Fri) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998)
In reply to: Many good points by pynm0001
Parent article: Daniel Bernstein: ten years of qmail security

And there's no reason for any language that doesn't play fast and loose close to the bare
metal not to detect it, which is why I questioned your assumption that most languages would
have an integer overflow problem.

No, it's not the optimized form. GCC added optimization that in loops took advantage of the
fact that overflow is undefined and hence not done in legal programs, and got a great deal of
flack for it.