* Re: "Arithmetic exception" with modulus operator '%'
2019-02-15 3:35 "Arithmetic exception" with modulus operator '%' jounijl
@ 2019-02-14 23:58 ` Rich Felker
2019-02-15 10:31 ` jounijl
2019-02-15 10:05 ` Szabolcs Nagy
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Rich Felker @ 2019-02-14 23:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jounijl; +Cc: musl
On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 03:35:23AM +0000, jounijl@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>
> As in the headline. Program stops and prints "Arithmetic exception"
> at the line where the modulus operator '%' is.
>
> I'm compiling in Alpine linux with clang installed from apk:s:
>
> clang -c test.c
> clang -o test test.o
>
> The code is:
>
> ----- snip -----
> unsigned int unum = 0;
> unsigned int umod = 0;
> unsigned int ures = 0;
> ures = unum % umod; // <-- this one
> ----- /snip -----
>
> The variables have some values other than 0.
I don't follow. You say they have some value other than 0, but the
above example snippet has them as zero, and if they're 0 it's
undefined behavior and a fault of some sort is a typical result. What
did you expect to happen?
Rich
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* "Arithmetic exception" with modulus operator '%'
@ 2019-02-15 3:35 jounijl
2019-02-14 23:58 ` Rich Felker
2019-02-15 10:05 ` Szabolcs Nagy
0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: jounijl @ 2019-02-15 3:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: musl
As in the headline. Program stops and prints "Arithmetic exception" at
the line where the modulus operator '%' is.
I'm compiling in Alpine linux with clang installed from apk:s:
clang -c test.c
clang -o test test.o
The code is:
----- snip -----
unsigned int unum = 0;
unsigned int umod = 0;
unsigned int ures = 0;
ures = unum % umod; // <-- this one
----- /snip -----
The variables have some values other than 0.
The environment is:
The Alpine Linux is installed in Oracle Virtualbox in FreeBSD 12, 64-bit
Intel.
$ uname -a
Linux localhost 4.14.89-0-vanilla #1-Alpine SMP Tue Dec 18 16:10:10 UTC
2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ clang --version
Alpine clang version 5.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_501/final) (based on LLVM 5.0.1)
What does this? Do I need to include some library?
w.b.reg., Jouni
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* Re: "Arithmetic exception" with modulus operator '%'
2019-02-15 3:35 "Arithmetic exception" with modulus operator '%' jounijl
2019-02-14 23:58 ` Rich Felker
@ 2019-02-15 10:05 ` Szabolcs Nagy
1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Szabolcs Nagy @ 2019-02-15 10:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: musl; +Cc: jounijl
* jounijl@yahoo.co.uk <jounijl@yahoo.co.uk> [2019-02-15 03:35:23 +0000]:
> As in the headline. Program stops and prints "Arithmetic exception" at the
> line where the modulus operator '%' is.
>
> I'm compiling in Alpine linux with clang installed from apk:s:
>
> clang -c test.c
> clang -o test test.o
>
> The code is:
>
> ----- snip -----
> unsigned int unum = 0;
> unsigned int umod = 0;
> unsigned int ures = 0;
> ures = unum % umod; // <-- this one
undefined behaviour == anything can happen
the compiler can drop this entirely.
> ----- /snip -----
>
> The variables have some values other than 0.
>
> The environment is:
> The Alpine Linux is installed in Oracle Virtualbox in FreeBSD 12, 64-bit
> Intel.
x86_64 traps mod by 0 (in case the compiler didn't
drop the code path because of ub).
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux localhost 4.14.89-0-vanilla #1-Alpine SMP Tue Dec 18 16:10:10 UTC 2018
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> $ clang --version
> Alpine clang version 5.0.1 (tags/RELEASE_501/final) (based on LLVM 5.0.1)
>
> What does this? Do I need to include some library?
what behaviour do you expect?
>
> w.b.reg., Jouni
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* Re: "Arithmetic exception" with modulus operator '%'
2019-02-14 23:58 ` Rich Felker
@ 2019-02-15 10:31 ` jounijl
2019-02-15 17:21 ` Rich Felker
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: jounijl @ 2019-02-15 10:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rich Felker; +Cc: musl
Exactly. To be complite:
The host machine prints: "Floating point exception" and outputs a core
file. Uses: /lib/libc.so.7
The Alpine prints: "Arithmetic exception". Uses: /lib/ld-musl-x86_64.so.1
Solaris 10 prints: "Arithmetic exception". Uses: /lib/libc.so.1 ;
/lib/libm.so.2
Ubuntu prints: "Floating point exception" and outputs a core file. Uses:
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
To the question "what do you except":
Of course the behaviour is similar to others and this is correct. As in
programs the behaviour would be best like this: number%zero would be the
number it self when number/zero is undefined or infinity (maby set the
number to the largest known number). To change this, some mathematical
evaluation would be needed. Answer: mod 0: Convenient would be the
number it self ?
Maby the core file has to be enabled somehow. Attached is a complite
test program. The word "trap" is unfamiliar to me. I think it means just
checking with an 'if'-like comparison.
Thank you for the replies. It helped. The simple facts are not always
obvious.
Jouni
the file:
$ cat m.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main( int argc, char *argv[] );
int main( int argc, char *argv[] ){
unsigned int z = 0;
unsigned int w = 0;
//floating point exception: fprintf( stderr, "\n 0 %% 0 = %i",
(int) z%w );
z = 1;
//floating point exception: fprintf( stderr, "\n 1 %% 0 = %i",
(int) z%w );
z = 0; w = 1;
fprintf( stderr, "\n 0 %% 1 = %i", (int) z%w );
z = 1; w = 1;
fprintf( stderr, "\n 1 %% 1 = %i", (int) z%w );
}
On 14.2.2019 23.58, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 03:35:23AM +0000, jounijl@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>> As in the headline. Program stops and prints "Arithmetic exception"
>> at the line where the modulus operator '%' is.
>>
>> I'm compiling in Alpine linux with clang installed from apk:s:
>>
>> clang -c test.c
>> clang -o test test.o
>>
>> The code is:
>>
>> ----- snip -----
>> unsigned int unum = 0;
>> unsigned int umod = 0;
>> unsigned int ures = 0;
>> ures = unum % umod; // <-- this one
>> ----- /snip -----
>>
>> The variables have some values other than 0.
> I don't follow. You say they have some value other than 0, but the
> above example snippet has them as zero, and if they're 0 it's
> undefined behavior and a fault of some sort is a typical result. What
> did you expect to happen?
>
> Rich
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* Re: "Arithmetic exception" with modulus operator '%'
2019-02-15 10:31 ` jounijl
@ 2019-02-15 17:21 ` Rich Felker
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Rich Felker @ 2019-02-15 17:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jounijl; +Cc: musl
On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 10:31:22AM +0000, jounijl@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>
> Exactly. To be complite:
>
> The host machine prints: "Floating point exception" and outputs a
> core file. Uses: /lib/libc.so.7
> The Alpine prints: "Arithmetic exception". Uses: /lib/ld-musl-x86_64.so.1
> Solaris 10 prints: "Arithmetic exception". Uses: /lib/libc.so.1 ;
> /lib/libm.so.2
> Ubuntu prints: "Floating point exception" and outputs a core file.
> Uses: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
>
> To the question "what do you except":
> Of course the behaviour is similar to others and this is correct. As
> in programs the behaviour would be best like this: number%zero would
> be the number it self when number/zero is undefined or infinity
> (maby set the number to the largest known number). To change this,
> some mathematical evaluation would be needed. Answer: mod 0:
> Convenient would be the number it self ?
This has nothing to do with musl or library implementation; what
you're asking for is a *compiler* that defines certain undefined
behavior in a particular way. Even if you had such a thing, writing C
code in order to depend on nonstandard behavior of a particular
compiler would not be a reasonable thing to do.
A better way to achieve the same thing would be just writing a
function that does what you want:
int my_mod(int a, int b)
{
if (!b) return a;
else if (b==-1) return 0;
else return a%b;
}
and using that instead of using the % operator directly. If you need
it to work in constant expression contexts, you could use a macro
instead:
#define MY_MOD(a,b) (!(b) ? (a) : (b)==-1 ? 0 : (a)%(b))
Rich
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