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Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?
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Denis Vlasenko |
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Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature? |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:25:41 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 19 December 2006 20:05, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Denis Vlasenko writes:
> >
> > I wrote this just a few days ago:
> >
> > do {
> > int32_t v1 = v << 1;
> > if (v < 0) v1 ^= mask;
> > v = v1;
> > printf("%10u: %08x\n", c++, v);
> > } while (v != 1);
> >
> > I would become rather sad if this will stop compiling correctly.
>
> I can understand the objections to do with "dusty deck" code that
> hasn't been looked at for aeons, but in the case of code that you
> wrote so recently, given that you understand the issue, why not simply
> use the standard idiom?
I want sane compiler. One in which N-bit integer variables stay exactly N-bit.
Without "magic" N+1 bit which is there "somethimes". a*2/2:
If I say "multiply by 2 and _after that_ divide by 2,
I meant that. Compiler can optimize it any way it wants,
as long as result is the same as unoptimized one.
Above: v is a signed entity. I expect (v < 0) to be equal to
"most significant bit is set". It's not about standards.
It's about sanity.
--
vda
- Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?, (continued)
- Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?, Florian Weimer, 2006/12/19
- Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?, Joseph S. Myers, 2006/12/19
- Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?, Florian Weimer, 2006/12/19
- Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?, Robert Dewar, 2006/12/19
- Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?, Denis Vlasenko, 2006/12/20
- Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?, Andrew Haley, 2006/12/19
- Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?,
Denis Vlasenko <=
- Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?, Robert Dewar, 2006/12/19
- Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?, Paul Brook, 2006/12/20
- Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?, Robert Dewar, 2006/12/19
- Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?, Andrew Pinski, 2006/12/20
- Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?, Robert Dewar, 2006/12/19
- RE: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?, Dave Korn, 2006/12/20
- Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?, Robert Dewar, 2006/12/19
- Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?, Mike Stump, 2006/12/20
- RE: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?, Dave Korn, 2006/12/20
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