Re: Autoconf manual's coverage of signed integer overflow & portability

[Robert Dewar]

Richard Kenner wrote:
> A few comments:
>
> > Many portable C programs assume that signed integer overflow wraps around
> > reliably using two's complement arithmetic.
>
> I'd replace "portable C programs" with "widely-used C programs".  The normal
> use of "portable" means that it conforms to the standard.

Actually the use of portable here is quite appropriate, it emphasizes
that such programs in general are pretty portable *despite* the fact
that they do not conform to the standard.