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Re: changing "configure" to default to "gcc -g -O2 -fwrapv ..."


From: Robert Dewar
Subject: Re: changing "configure" to default to "gcc -g -O2 -fwrapv ..."
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 15:14:55 -0400
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Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

You're right, I shouldn't have said "implementation defined."

What will happen with -fno-strict-overflow is whatever the processor
ISA happens to do when a signed arithmetic operation overflows.  For
ordinary machines it will just wrap.

Given that all ordinary machines wrap, is there really enough
difference in performance in practice between -fno-strict-overflow
and -fwrapv to justify adding this vague and rather dubious (given
it is vague) switch. Saying "whatever the processor does" is not
enough, since on some processors there are multiple addition
instructions (e.g. trapping and non-trapping variants)

It is intentionally vague.  If you need non-vague semantics, you
should use -fwrapv.  -fno-strict-overflow is intended to provide the
vague semantics which C compilers have historically provided, in
support of existing code.

Well I find vague semantics intrinsically unappealing!




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