Re: GCC optimizes integer overflow: bug or feature?

[Toon Moene]

Robert Dewar wrote:

> Valid programs is too narrow a set, you really do have to pay attention
> to normal usage. I very well remember the Burroughs 5500 compiler, which
> took advantage of the stack semantics allowed by the standard, but in
> fact virtually all Fortran programs of the era assumed static allocation
> since that's what every other compiler did. As a consequence the 5500
> Fortran was completely useless, one factor that certainly caused
> universities I was aassociated with to avoid this machine.

[ Sorry for the late reply ]

As we say on the committee: Quality of Implementation Issue.

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