Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work1) now available

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

William Ahern <william@25thandClement.com> writes:
> Why even bother with the explicit conversions? If you're relying on
> two's-complement behavior, it's unnecessary. If you're not, it's
> insufficient. Am I missing something?

Without the casts, you might get signed overflow, and signed overflow
has undefined results in C.  Real compilers take advantage of this
during optimization (it's not just a theoretical issue), meaning that
the result may not be what you wanted, even when the hardware itself
uses a straightforward twos-complement representation...

-miles

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