On Tue, 14 Jun 2016, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> But, unlike normal signed or unsigned integral types or char, cast to
> bool/_Bool is special, it is actually a comparison != 0.
> So, I'd say if we want to support arith overflow to bool/_Bool, it should be
> above with:
> signed_intNNN_t t = (signed_intNNN_t) x + (signed_intNNN_t) y;
> z = t != 0;
> ovf = (signed_intNNN_t) z != t;

And, I really don't see this as useful.  Rejecting boolean types there 
makes more sense to me.

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Joseph S. Myers
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