Richard Kenner wrote:
I found my copy of K&R (Second Edition). Page 200: "The handling of overflow,
divide check, and other exceptions in expression evaluation is not defined
by the language. Most existing implementations of C ignore overflow in
evaluation of signed integral expressions and assignments, but this behavior
is not guaranteed."
OK, that's what I remembered, so in fact the new C standard has changed
nothing from a definitional point of view, it is just that people got
in the habit of ignoring the definition and going with what the
compiler(s) happened to do.
