Andrew Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Paolo Carlini writes: | > Andrew Haley wrote: | > | > > > Ok, I believe you. However, isn't true that, in general, because the | > > > sign of the result is implementation defined, | > > | > >The sign of the result of % is no longer (since C99) implementation- | > >defined. | > > | > > | > I see. However, by default, I'm always talking about C++03... | | I just had a look at that, and it seems that they haven't yet adopted | the tightening-up of the langauge used by C. However, the footnote | says: | | "74) According to work underway toward the revision of ISO C, the | preferred algorithm for integer division follows the rules defined in | the ISO Fortran standard, ISO/IEC 1539:1991, in which the quotient is | always rounded toward zero." | | It would be a very brave developer who chose to do anything different.
Then, it seems we have brave GCC developers :-) -- Gaby
