On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 6:44 PM, David Vandevoorde <daveed_at_[hidden]> wrote:

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> > On Feb 15, 2018, at 5:14 PM, Myria <myriachan_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> > I'm personally on the side of defining signed overflow as wrapping,
> > but compiler people do have a point that it would inhibit
> > optimizations in certain cases involving signed integers.
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> My understanding is that it kills a significant optimization opportunity
> (that is currently taken advantage of by compilers).
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I also believe that it makes it harder for tooling to flag unintentional
signed overflow.