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From: C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] BUG!!! in Plan9 compiler!
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:53:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <239c41a785c8c5638338c2f007f50733@vitanuova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100422224911.F14615B73@mail.bitblocks.com>

>As per C89 in this case the unsigned char value should be
>promoted to a *signed* int value.  The sum will be of type
>signed int and so the division will do the right thing. In
>kencc case it seems the sum has type unsigned int for some
>reason and further, the signed divisor (2) is promoted to an
>unsigned int. Seems like a bug.

on 19 April, I wrote:
>notably the compiler doesn't implement the value-preserving rules for comparisons. ...
>instead the compiler implements the older unsigned-preserving rule



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-23 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-22 15:29 tlaronde
2010-04-22 17:03 ` Bakul Shah
2010-04-22 17:36   ` tlaronde
2010-04-22 17:50     ` tlaronde
2010-04-22 19:08       ` geoff
2010-04-22 19:32         ` tlaronde
2010-04-22 20:07           ` Bakul Shah
2010-04-22 21:15             ` tlaronde
2010-04-22 21:26               ` tlaronde
2010-04-22 22:49               ` Bakul Shah
2010-04-23  7:42                 ` tlaronde
2010-04-23 18:53                 ` C H Forsyth [this message]
2010-04-23 18:51                   ` tlaronde
2010-04-23 20:08                   ` Bakul Shah
2010-04-23 20:46                     ` ron minnich
2010-04-23 21:44                       ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-23 22:34                       ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-24 18:59                         ` Bakul Shah
2010-04-24 21:47                           ` Charles Forsyth
2010-04-25  0:31                           ` erik quanstrom

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