PATCH: Bad signed int to long long conversion

[Torbjorn Granlund]

Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net> writes:

  On 2011-12-01 13:13:05 +0100, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
  > Let's not get too alarmed by this "bug";
  > I'd argue that the real bug is in the C standard.
  
  No, the C standard is correct.
  
By definition?

I don't mind that somebody patches up all occurences of signed negation
where the smallest negative value could hypothetically appear.  I just
never saw any problems with the usage in GMP, and prefer to work on
problem i think are real.

We actually do avoid right shift of signed numbers in GMP, but that is
actually a less hypothetical problem.

Language standards are good things, but we should reap their benefits,
not become their slaves.

-- 
Torbjörn