Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | "Joseph S. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > Encapsulate reliable overflow checks for the various | > arithmetic operations and types in functions or macros in | > gnulib (for long long multiply, in this case). | | That might be the best approach in the long run, but it | would take a lot of painstaking analysis work in GNU | applications and libraries. I doubt we have time to do that | right now. We do, however, have the time to take a simple | approach that will work globally to preserve the traditional | wrapped-overflow semantics of C.
I think I argued that approach not so long ago, unsuccessfully. Good luck. -- Gaby
