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Re:An ex-ARM engineer critiques RISC-V by the5avage on Monday November 02, 2020 @02:27AM (#24965494)
At the time C was designed not all machines did represent signed integers in 2 complement. Therefore it was not possible to define behavior for signed overflow. They probably should change that 2020^^

GCC has intrinsics for integer math with overflow checks

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Re:An ex-ARM engineer critiques RISC-V by ncmncm on Monday November 02, 2020 @11:46AM (#24970065)
C++ formalized two's complement already. Formalizing power-of-two word size and 8-bit bytes might come.
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