[nycbug-talk] Re: MSNBC on the decline of technology jobs

[Jed Davis]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0506222151440.26269-100000 at bawx.pilosoft.com>,
 <alex at pilosoft.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Jed Davis wrote:
> 
> > /*
> >  * This came up (in a much more complicated form)
> >  * on the GCC list recently:
> >  */
> > signed int x = INT_MAX;
> > unsigned int y = UINT_MAX;
> > ++x; ++y;
> > /* Now, what are the values of x and y? */
>
> If I remember correctly, both will be undefined. Actually, there's a
> chance that compiler will warn if the constant static variable assignment
> is used...

Unsigned types are defined to wrap, apparently:
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/67921
and there's some discussion of "undefined" vs. "unspecified" there, too:
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/67970


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