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msullivan opened this issue May 30, 2012 · 0 comments
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Negative values of signed ints treated as positive array indexes #2468

msullivan opened this issue May 30, 2012 · 0 comments
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Negative values of signed ints will be treated as positive for the purpose of indexing into arrays. This only comes up when using narrow int types. foo[-1i8] is equivalent to foo[255].

We think the solution is to sign extend array indexes in trans.
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