Re: changing "configure" to default to "gcc -g -O2 -fwrapv ..."

[Robert Dewar]

Paul Eggert wrote:

> In practice, I expect that most C programmers probably
> assume wrapv semantics, if only unconsciously.  The minimal
> C Standard may not entitle them to that assumption, but they
> assume it anyway.  Part of this is the Java influence no
> doubt.  Sorry, but that is just the way the world goes.

That's an interesting point, I suspect it is indeed the
case that more C programmers will assume that C matches Java
semantics (indeed in a sense Java derived its semantics
from C practice).