2 Dec
2010
2 Dec
'10
8:35 p.m.
On 2 Dec 2010 at 19:53, Brent Hilpert wrote:
The notion of integer divide is pretty well defined.
I'd be pretty
annoyed if I specced two ints, did a divide and didn't get back the
'standard' result. I don't have a C ref at hand, but in C at least, I
think it would be stretching acceptable claims of language flexibility
or non-specification for compiler implementors to be taking leniency
here.
Oh, I agree, but K&R is silent on exceptions.
Does any C detect integer overflow (i.e. subtracting a large positive
number from a negative and getting a positive number back)? While
some hardware can trap this behavior, there's a lot that can't.
There may be a status flag set somewhere, but testing takes cycles
and is generally not performed.
Source:
main()
{
/* program demonstrating integer subtraction */
int a, b, c;
a = -31000;
b = 12345;
c = a - b;
printf( "%d minus %d is %d\n", a, b, c);
}
Compile and run:
D:\tmp>cl /AS x.c
Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 8.00c
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1984-1993. All rights reserved.
x.c
Microsoft (R) Segmented Executable Linker Version 5.60.339 Dec 5
1994
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-1993. All rights reserved.
Object Modules [.obj]: x.obj
Run File [x.exe]: "x.exe" /noi
List File [nul.map]: NUL
Libraries [.lib]:
Definitions File [nul.def]: ;
D:\tmp>x
-31000 minus 12345 is 22191
--Chuck