alt Hacker NewsSigned overflow being UB (while unsigned is defined to wrap) is a quirk of C and C++ specifically, not some fundamental property of computing.
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Symmetry • today at 4:06 PM
Specifically, C comes form a world where allowing for machines that didn't use 2's compliment (or 8 bit bytes) was an active concern.
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Nim (the original one, not Nimony) compiles to C, so making basic types work differently from C would involve major performance costs.