I was recently testing some code, and could not figure out why an expression
was evaluating as true. I switched from gcc-4.1 to gcc-4.2 (and then down to
gcc-3.4), and suddenly it started evaluating as I would have expected. I was
hoping that somebody could either confirm my suspicions that this is a bug, or
explain why it may not be.
The simplified code in question:
int32_t dlen = 2147483647;
if ((int32_t)(dlen + 8) > (int32_t)2147483647)
printf("blah\n");
It appears as though it is evaluating that expression as unsigned in gcc-4.1,
and as signed in gcc-3.4 and gcc-4.2. If either side is changed to an
unsigned type, then the block is correctly evaluated as unsigned in all
versions tested. It may also be interesting to note that if "dlen + 8" is
changed to "2147483647 + 8" or "dlen + dlen2" (where dlen2 is an int32_t set
to 8), that the expression is correctly evaluated as signed.
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Jason Parker
Digium
