uint overflow behaviour
Steven Schveighoffer
schveiguy at gmail.com
Wed Sep 15 10:24:57 UTC 2021
On Wednesday, 15 September 2021 at 10:08:13 UTC, DLearner wrote:
> Please confirm that if the addition of two uint variables
> produces a result larger than can be held in a uint:
> 1. This is a D-legal operation (however inadvisable!), with
> the D-defined result of wraparound;
Definition under point 7 here :
https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#add_expressions
And I wouldn’t say inadvisable. It’s defined and if you have a
good reason to allow that, then you can do that.
> 2. Emphasing 1. above: the result is not undefined, or an
> error (by the rules of D), or simply implementation-dependant
> (whether by compiler or chip).
Yes
-Steve
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