Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > In that case, we should make the Autoconf change optional. | > I'll propose a further patch along those lines. | | OK, here's that proposed patch to Autoconf. Also, this patch attempts | to discuss the matter better in the documentation. The documentation | was by far the hardest part of the patch to write, and I'd appreciate | any comments/reviews for it.
To the attention of the Steering Committee. Additional data: the the C++ runtime support assumes and publishes wrapping semantics for signed integer arithmetic overflow. This can be seen from numeric_limits<T>::is_modulo. This has been so for about half a decade now (sorry I don't have the exact dates). -- Gaby
