Not gonna lie, if I see code exploiting integer overflow, I reject it. It
just smells hoity-toity. I like code to be dead obvious.

And as for assigning negative numbers to unsigned types, whatever happened
to type safety?

Ray


On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 11:21 AM Thiago Macieira via Std-Proposals <
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> On Wednesday, 1 March 2023 08:32:41 PST Ray Gardener via Std-Proposals
> wrote:
> > size_t can be assigned -1?
>
> Sure it can. Any out-of-range value is simply stored as if repeatedly
> adding
> or subtracting (SIZE_MAX + 1) until it is in range.
>
> so -1 is (SIZE_MAX + 1) - 1, which is SIZE_MAX.
>
> Some compilers will print a warning though (ICC was notable for the
> "change of
> sign" warning).
>
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