Adjusting gcc flags to eliminate optimizations is another way to go.
Adding -fwrapv would be an excellent start. Lack of this flag breaks
most code which checks for integer wrap-around.
Lack of the flag does not break any valid C code, only code
making unwarranted assumptions (i.e., buggy code).
The compiler "knows"
that signed integers don't ever wrap, and thus eliminates any code
which checks for values going negative after a wrap-around.
You cannot assume it eliminates such code; the compiler is free
to do whatever it wants in such a case.
You should typically write such a computation using unsigned
types, FWIW.
Anyway, with 4.1 you shouldn't see frequent problems due to
"not using -fwrapv while my code is broken WRT signed overflow"
yet; and if/when problems start to happen, to "correct" action
to take is not to add the compiler flag, but to fix the code.
Segher
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