From: LIU Hao <lh_mouse@126.com>
To: Stefan Kanthak <stefan.kanthak@nexgo.de>, gcc@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Widening multiplication, but no narrowing division [i386/AMD64]
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 21:10:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd434f54-975d-7cd3-5609-3bd22509ae14@126.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <554A1354252F43BB8915A74129C41BE3@H270>
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在 2023/1/9 20:20, Stefan Kanthak 写道:
> Hi,
>
> GCC (and other C compilers too) support the widening multiplication
> of i386/AMD64 processors, but DON'T support their narrowing division:
>
>
QWORD-DWORD division would change the behavior of your program.
Given:
```
uint32_t xdiv(uint64_t x, uint32_t y) { return x / y; }
```
then `xdiv(0x200000002, 2)` should first convert both operands to `uint64_t`, perform the division
which yields `0x100000001`, then truncate the quotient to 32-bit which gives `1`. The result is exact.
If DIV was used, it would effect an exception:
```
mov edx, 2
mov eax, edx # edx:eax = 0x200000002
mov ecx, edx
div ecx # division overflows because the quotient
# can't stored into EAX
```
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Best regards,
LIU Hao
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-09 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-09 12:20 Stefan Kanthak
2023-01-09 13:10 ` LIU Hao [this message]
2023-01-09 13:19 ` Stefan Kanthak
2023-01-09 14:23 ` Paul Koning
2023-01-09 15:20 ` Stefan Kanthak
2023-01-09 15:30 ` Paul Koning
2023-01-09 16:27 ` Stefan Kanthak
2023-01-10 16:49 ` Paul Koning
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