Michael Veksler writes: > Roberto Bagnara wrote: > > > > Reading the thread "Autoconf manual's coverage of signed integer > > overflow & portability" I was horrified to discover about GCC's > > miscompilation of the remainder expression that causes INT_MIN % -1 > > to cause a SIGFPE on CPUs of the i386 family. Are there plans to > > fix this bug (which, to me, looks quite serious)? > > All the best, > > > This problem is quite rare in practice (otherwise there would be > much more complaining). As such it may be too expensive, > performance-wise, to fix in GCC. It seems as one of those > classical things that can be worked-around in the kernel.
I guess, or it can be fixed-up in user space. We already do this for the Java language. Andrew.
