Like unsigned integer wraparound (and unlike signed integer overflow) these changes of value are not undefined behavior, but they may be unintentional and may also be bugs. As of recently, Clang contains support for dynamically detecting value changes and either providing a diagnostic or else terminating the program. Some fine-grained flags are available for controlling these diagnostics, but you can enable all of them (plus some others, such as signed overflow and unsigned wraparound checks) using -fsanitize=integer.