I know about all these theoretical possibilities of numbers behaving
in strange ways when arithmetic optimizations assume that signed
overflow won't occur when they actually might. Yep, it creates subtle
bugs. The warning is worthwhile. Still and all:
485 tvdiff = abs_tval(sub_tval(timetv, tvlast));
486 if (tvdiff.tv_sec != 0) {
systime.c: In function 'step_systime':
systime.c:486:5: warning: assuming signed overflow does not occur when
simplifying conditional to constant [-Wstrict-overflow]
What possible optimization might be going on to cause an overflow
problem when I simply want to know if the "tv_sec" field is zero or
not? (BTW, in current source, "tvdiff" is a structure that is returned
by abs_tval())
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