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Re:Using signed or unsigned int by default in C (2015) by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @05:02PM (#32571460)
> I have never seen the benefit of leaving signed overflow undefined

The benefit is that architectures are free to implement it with saturating arithmetic.

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Re:Using signed or unsigned int by default in C (2015) by Asooka on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @01:24PM (#32582707)
That's fine. Define it as saturating on those architectures. Just being defined as "this never happens" is hugely detrimental to predicting how you're program behaves.
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