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| From | Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Is this code considered to transgress the signed overflow purism? |
| Date | 2017-04-27 09:38 -0700 |
| Organization | None to speak of |
| Message-ID | <lna871n6uc.fsf@kst-u.example.com> (permalink) |
| References | <11ea6682-cdee-4513-97c2-6c90b585716a@googlegroups.com> <odt02g$k55$1@dont-email.me> <307ebff5-b74f-46ab-beb7-7e2e4ff494fb@googlegroups.com> |
supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
[...]
> The clear intention of the Standard is that on a sign-magnitude platform
> whose hardware may randomly catch fire if the left-shift instruction is
> fed a negative number, a compiler for such a platform would have no
> obligation to prevent that from happening. I see no evidence that the
> authors of the Standard expected or intended that implementations
> targeting two's-complement hardware would should not opt to behave "in a
> documented manner characteristic of the environment". The authors of C89
> deliberately avoided defining behaviors that would be applicable to some
> machines but not others, figuring that compiler writers and programmers
> alike should be able to recognize the obvious useful cases.
The authors of the C89 standard deliberately stated that a left
shift on a negative value has undefined behavior. "behaving
during translation or program execution in a documented manner
characteristic of the environment" (that's quoted from a note on
the definition of "undefined behavior") is just one of the possible
behaviors, and it is not emphasized over any of the others.
An optimizing compiler may assume that the left operand of a left
shift operator is non-negative. If that assumption is violated,
the resulting code may behave differently than if the compiler
generated a shift instruction. A compiler might also generate code
to check that the left operand is non-negative and trap if it isn't.
Don't you get tired of making the same point again and again
and again?
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"
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Re: Is this code considered to transgress the signed overflow purism? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-04-30 14:25 -0700
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Re: Is this code considered to transgress the signed overflow purism? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-04-28 11:30 -0700
Re: Is this code considered to transgress the signed overflow purism? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-04-28 08:35 -0700
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Re: Is this code considered to transgress the signed overflow purism? jadill33@gmail.com - 2017-05-03 09:03 -0700
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Re: Is this code considered to transgress the signed overflow purism? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-04-30 14:42 -0700
Re: Is this code considered to transgress the signed overflow purism? joel.rees@gmail.com - 2017-04-30 23:57 -0700
Re: Is this code considered to transgress the signed overflow purism? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-05-02 04:32 -0700
Re: Is this code considered to transgress the signed overflow purism? joel.rees@gmail.com - 2017-05-03 18:20 -0700
Re: Is this code considered to transgress the signed overflow purism? luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 23:12 -0700
Re: Is this code considered to transgress the signed overflow purism? joel.rees@gmail.com - 2017-05-09 19:54 -0700
Re: Is this code considered to transgress the signed overflow purism? luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2017-05-09 21:21 -0700
Re: Is this code considered to transgress the signed overflow purism? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-04-27 10:46 -0400
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Re: Is this code considered to transgress the signed overflow purism? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-04-27 09:38 -0700
Re: Is this code considered to transgress the signed overflow purism? supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-04-27 10:17 -0700
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