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Hi Benoit,
Could you please elaborate on why it is dangerous? On most cases I know of, when there is overflow, the signed version leads to unsigned behaviour, and the unsigned version leads to something such as a crash or an infinite loop. In the end, I would say that both cases are equally bad.
Do you have a concrete example where the signed version leads to more dangerous bugs than the unsigned version?
> But from the perspective of software developers, the undefined behavior in signed overflow is danger.
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> That leads to one of the strongest arguments in favor of unsigned: at least, that has well-defined (wrapping) overflow behavior. That might be 'broken', but it isn't nearly as dangerous as the undefined behavior of signed overflow!
> Benoit