Pedro Izecksohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- peternilsson42 wrote: > > Ah, then you've probably been fooled by the cliché that > > C is just portable assembler. > > If I could do just one modification to the standard, > I'd add an overflow macro, like errno.
The behaviour on integer overflow is undefined. Hence, implementations already have the freedom to do precisely that if they so choose. [That they don't is indicitative!] -- Peter