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List:       gcc-patches
Subject:    Re: PATCH RFC: -Wstrict-overflow
From:       Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr () cs ! tamu ! edu>
Date:       2007-02-02 19:29:36
Message-ID: 87sldowe73.fsf () soliton ! cs ! tamu ! edu
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Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> writes:

[...]

| > > But I think that -Wstrict-overflow (or -Wstrict-overflow=9) should
| > > warn about it, because it is much harder to say "warns about most
| > > uses of undefined overflow."
| > 
| > If you really, really think this is useful, then I guess I could be
| > persuaded of a third level.  I'm not sure who would use it.
| 
| Fanatics.

That only sweeps the issue under name calling, without solving it.

I believe we can resolve this without resorting to that trick.

-- Gaby
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