2010/4/23 Heinz Riener <[email protected]>:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm using the native GCC version[1] of my GNU/Linux distribution. I wonder
> whether GCC's optimization behavior is in the following case correct.
> Consider the following two programs:
>
> (1)
> int test(int n) {
> if (n > 0)
> return 1;
> return 0;
> }
>
> (2)
> int test(int n) {
> if (2*n > 0)
> return 1;
> return 0;
> }
>
> After compiling both with the flags '-c -O2 -pedantic -Wall', they result in
> the same object file. I expected the object files to be different. (The
> second program may overflow, the first program does not.) Please, point me
> to the right direction.
>
> [1]: gcc (GCC) 4.4.3 20100316 (prerelease)
>
> Thanks,
> Heinz
>
For such overflow checks you have to use the option -fwrapv to enable
overflow checks.
Kai
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