Jim Apple has posted comments on this change.

Change subject: Add a build flag for the undefined behavior sanitizer, aka 
"ubsan".
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Patch Set 2:

> If they're relying on twos-complement we could just cast to
 > unsigned for the bit-manipulation, right?

 > > Are any of these overflows legitimate use of signed overflows?
 > > Assuming not, shouldn't we just fix the code that can lead to
 > > signed overflows? Otherwise, while the behavior would become
 > > defined, it's still not correct.
 > 
 > What is your definition of a legitimate use of a signed overflow?
 > 
 > Several are intentional and demonstrate an understanding of two's
 > complement arithmetic.

Yes, but let me try to rephrase my last question to Dan:

If an Impala user adds 1 to the maximum signed integer value, should they 
expect that it will overflow to the minimum signed integer value? If so, 
presumably we should have a test for that.

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