On Tuesday 28 June 2005 07:12, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > For the concrete case at issue, if the hardware I'm writing the C/C++ > programs for consistently displays modulo arithmetics for signed > integer type, Andrew can you tell me why GCC should deny me access > to that functionally where it actually can?
Because it disallows compiler transformations? E.g. suddenly a loop with a signed variable as the loop counter may wrap around, which that means some transformations that are safe now would no longer be safe. Gr. Steven
