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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:
> [...]
>
>> The text of the standard explicitly carves this out;  or, rather,
>> it attempts to.  If the result of an expression is not
>> representable in the target type, _regardless of whether that's
>> due to UB or not_, a diagnostic is required.
>
> [...]
>
> How would an expression (appearing in a context that requires an
> integer constant expression) not "evaluate to a constant that is in
> the range of representable values for its type" other than by UB?

I can think of one.