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From: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>
To: Pierre Weis <pierre.weis@inria.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Runtime overflow and what to do
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 21:25:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021015212553.A9185@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210151915.VAA09316@pauillac.inria.fr>; from pierre.weis@inria.fr on Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 09:15:10PM +0200

> As a reward, note that your overflow test on addition raises overflow
> when computing (max_int + 1) - 1, while this sum is actually
> representable within a machine integer...

More nit picking: max_int + 1 isn't representable, and (machine)
addition evaluates it to min_int, which is clearly a case of overflow.

- Xavier Leroy
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-15 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-10 15:01 Scott J,
2002-10-10 15:07 ` Maxence Guesdon
2002-10-10 15:11 ` Maxence Guesdon
2002-10-10 15:21 ` Luc Maranget
2002-10-10 18:13   ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-10 18:57     ` Xavier Leroy
2002-10-10 22:17       ` Scott J,
2002-10-11  8:00         ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-11 10:16         ` Alessandro Baretta
2002-10-12 16:13           ` John Carr
2002-10-12 16:58             ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-12 17:12               ` John Prevost
2002-10-13  9:31               ` Xavier Leroy
2002-10-13  9:52                 ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-13  9:57                   ` Xavier Leroy
2002-10-13 10:15                     ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-13 13:25                   ` John Carr
2002-10-13  9:28             ` Xavier Leroy
2002-10-14  0:56               ` Chris Hecker
2002-10-14  9:46                 ` Jacques Garrigue
2002-10-14 11:02                   ` Scott J,
2002-10-14 14:05                   ` Tim Freeman
2002-10-14 15:32                     ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2002-10-14 16:12                       ` Alain Frisch
2002-10-14 16:49                   ` [Caml-list] new ocaml switches (was Re: Runtime overflow and what to do) Chris Hecker
2002-10-13  9:25         ` [Caml-list] Runtime overflow and what to do Xavier Leroy
2002-10-13 10:04           ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-10-13 10:29             ` Pierre Weis
2002-10-13 10:47               ` Daniel de Rauglaudre
2002-10-13 12:38                 ` Pierre Weis
2002-10-13 16:14               ` Xavier Leroy
2002-10-13 17:06                 ` Michel Quercia
2002-10-15 19:15                 ` Pierre Weis
2002-10-15 19:25                   ` Xavier Leroy [this message]
2002-10-16  8:24                     ` Pierre Weis
2002-10-13 10:19           ` Pierre Weis
2002-10-11  8:02       ` Sven LUTHER
2002-10-11  6:42 ` Florian Hars

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