The “unsigned for value range” antipattern--Arthur O’Dwyer

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The “unsigned for value range” antipattern

by Arthur O’Dwyer

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Background: Signed Integers Are (Not Yet) Two’s Complement
At the WG21 committee meeting which is currently underway in Jacksonville, JF Bastien will be presenting a proposal to make C++’s int data type wrap around on overflow. That is, where today the expression INT_MAX + 1 has undefined behavior, JF would like to see that expression formally defined to come out equal to INT_MIN...

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