Signed or unsigned address comparisons?

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From: Richard Kiessig
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 00:00

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GCC seems to generate address comparisons in RTL as signed compares (i.e.
"GT" instead of "GTU").  Is there a reason for this?  Shouldn't address
compares be unsigned?  It probably doesn't matter on most machines, but it
does on the one I'm working on.

Rick

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