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Subject: Re: question regarding div / std::div implementation
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On 04/20/2016 02:55 PM, Daniel Gutson wrote:
> That fools the compiler.

Yes, bizarre C code can fool the compiler. I was talking about realistic 
code, not contrived examples.

glibc itself uses % and / in places where div/ldiv/lldiv might plausibly 
be used internally, and this is portable and maintainable and efficient 
and there is no real reason to change this, even if div/ldiv/lldiv were 
tuned. Similarly for other C applications.