On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:52:42AM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
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> On Feb 10, 2006, at 3:15, Joshua Isom wrote:
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> [ quoting rearranged - please don't toppost ]
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> >On Feb 9, 2006, at 6:20 PM, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
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> >>$ cat div.pasm
> >>set I0, 0x8000
> >>div I1, I0, -1
> >>print I1
"Leopold Toetsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Strange, but it exists for just on case (well not strange, there are just
more negative numbers ...):
$ cat div.pasm
set I0, 0x8000
Which is the largest negative number we can represent in 32 bit integers
(-2147483648).
div I1, I0, -1
print I
On Feb 10, 2006, at 3:15, Joshua Isom wrote:
[ quoting rearranged - please don't toppost ]
On Feb 9, 2006, at 6:20 PM, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
$ cat div.pasm
set I0, 0x8000
div I1, I0, -1
print I1
print "\n"
end
Why not case it to switch it to 0x7fff? In any case, if the
code's a
Why not case it to switch it to 0x7fff? In any case, if the code's
added in to check for it an to throw an exception, then wouldn't it be
more friendly to return as close to what's expected, and just call it
"magical rounding"? But out of curiosity, why would integer division
be a floatin
