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seh@seh.codem.com (Stephen E. Halpin) wrote:

>Something is better than nothing, as long as you dont get a false sense
>of security from it.  Im more concerned about boundary behavior, ie what
>happens with (2^31)*4/32..  When executed in order, it should really
>produce an exception - veriants of C which dont optimize to (2^31)/8
>return 0 and go on their merry way...  The simple truth of the matter
>is you have to know something about the underlying machine in almost any
>language.

As a naturally cautious type when programming, I would have written:

(2^31)*(4/32)

as a matter of course. This style makes equations easier to read, and
also helps the compiler. ie I am forcing the order of execution at all
times and can therefore ignore compiler nuances :-)

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Neil              Team ( Ada => UK )
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