Pathalogical divides
Richard Kenner
kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu
Mon Sep 25 02:43:00 GMT 2000
It says, in s. 6.5 paragraph 5 of ISO/IEC 9899:1999:
If an _exceptional condition_ occurs during the evaluation of an
expression (that is, if the result is not mathematically defined or
not in the range of representable values for its type), the behaviour
is undefined.
'undefined behaviour' can always include a signal, or anything else
that a mad compiler designer could dream up.
Sure, except that the (largest_negtive_number % -1) *is* mathematically
defined: anything mod -1 is 0! It's the corresponding *division* that's
undefined, but that isn't what the programmer is requesting.
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