http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58454
Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords| |documentation Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Last reconfirmed| |2013-09-18 CC| |iant at google dot com Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #3 from Richard Biener <rguenth at gcc dot gnu.org> --- -fno-strict-overflow should have never been added because it certainly does not disable all use of undefined signed overflow behavior. Which makes it kind-of useless. Ian, the documentation of -fno-strict-overflow suggests that the compiler will not rely on signed overflow not happening. That's not true, so this is definitely a documentation bug.