From: Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com>
To: Paul Schlie <schlie@comcast.net>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: INT_MIN % -1
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 11:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41ADADA0.3080908@gnat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BDD2A300.819B%schlie@comcast.net>
Paul Schlie wrote:
> Understood, as ADA programs may bound the domain of it's variables
> guaranteeing that the operation would be well behaved within the bounds of
> it's operands; but wonder if saving a few cycles out of the likely several
> required for a divide or modulo operation would likely be worth the added,
> albeit minor, complexity?
>
>
I think so, it's by far the most common case, and it is a pity to take a hit
in the normal case in Ada just so that a pathological case in C can be done
right :-) Actually even in C, you can often tell that the bad case is impossible.
P.S. The language is Ada, not ADA, it's a woman's name. ADA is the Americans with
Disability Act (among others) and there is a great poster of Clinton saying "I want
you to pay attention to ADA!" :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-01 11:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-30 4:25 Paul Schlie
2004-11-30 7:02 ` Robert Dewar
2004-11-30 22:47 ` Paul Schlie
2004-12-01 0:39 ` Robert Dewar
2004-12-01 3:22 ` Paul Schlie
2004-12-01 11:40 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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2004-11-29 23:38 Morten Welinder
2004-11-30 0:24 ` David Daney
2004-11-30 0:45 ` Andreas Schwab
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