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Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C by JoeAltmaier on Thursday April 16, 2020 @10:25AM (#22889667)
Hm. May be off-topic by now. Incrementing an int is going to work the same on the same hardware, forever. Nothing the compile has any say in.
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Re:Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C by flatfinger on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:59PM (#22893497)
If a compiler decides that it's going to process:

    unsigned mul(unsigned short x, unsigned short y)
    { return x*y; }
in a way that causes calling code to behave in meaningless fashion if x would exceed INT_MAX/y [something gcc will sometimes actually do, by the way, with that exact function!], the hardware isn't going to have any say in that.
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