BUG: Avoid UB in safe_[add,sub,mul] helpers#31396
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Thanks Nathan. I marked this for backport as it seems straight forward. |
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BUG: Avoid UB in safe_[add,sub,mul] helpers (#31396)
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Over in https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/31378/changes#r3190759945, I noticed that these helpers can trigger UB, since the result is always computed even if overflow might happen. A sufficiently aggressive compiler might optimize functionality away if it detects the undefined behavior.
Clang and gcc both have intrinsics to handle this, which we use if available. I had to add new probes for the add and sub builtin intrinsics. For the fallback cases, I added early returns to avoid triggering overflow.
I used Claude Opus 4.7 to help with this.