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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: gcc failure (optimised/non-optimised)
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 08:35:48 -0700
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bartc <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]
> I changed the code a little to this:
>
>   int main(void) {
>       int i,m;
>       m=0x7fffffff;
>       for (i = 0; i < m + 1; i++)
>           ;
>       return 0;
>   }
[...]

Assuming 32-bit int, 0x7fffffff is equal to INT_MAX.

What behavior did you expect when evaluating INT_MAX + 1?
(Any possible expectation is incorrect.)

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