[ub] A proposal to define signed overflow submitted?

Hyman Rosen hyman.rosen at gmail.com
Fri Mar 16 16:18:37 CET 2018


On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 10:23 AM, Lawrence Crowl <Lawrence at crowl.org> wrote:

> On 3/14/18, Hyman Rosen <hyman.rosen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > All [compilers] need to do is to model the abstract machine on the
> > underlying computer.
>
> Do you mean "_on_ the underlying computer" or "_of_ the underlying
> computer"?


"On."  The job of the compiler is to create an executable program that
models the visible behavior of the abstract machine when it is run.
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