David Daney wrote:
Roberto Bagnara wrote:

Everyone knows that dividing a number by -1 or 1 gives
a 0 remainder.  To the contrary, no one expects a%b to
raise SIFPE when b != 0.


On the contrary, since the beginning of time SIGFPE has been generated on GCC/x86/linux under these conditions. This is wildly known.

Just because you just found out about it does not mean that 'no one' expects it.

Indeed, I would never write this expression expecting the result to
be reliably zero, since x86 chips have treated this as a divide by
zero since the beginning of time (well 1981 :-)), a SIGFPE is quite
expected! So I guess Roberto's "no one" does not include me :-)

David Daney

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