On Tuesday 28 June 2005 14:16, Paul Koning wrote: > >>>>> "Steven" == Steven Bosscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Steven> Indeed. Frankly this "seems likely" guess confuses me. It > Steven> is already well known that using unsigned types for loop > Steven> counters may greatly improve the code gcc can generate for > Steven> loops. With wrap-around semantics, suddenly countable loops > Steven> are turned into noncountable loops, overflow can occur, > Steven> dependencies may be introduced that never happen in reality, > Steven> and so on. > > I must be missing something.
Yes. > Unsigned has wraparound (modulo) > semantics. The whole point is that it doesn't. Gr. Steven
