ow Integers Should Work

Don nospam at nospam.com
Mon Dec 5 08:37:06 PST 2011


On 05.12.2011 14:31, bearophile wrote:
> Found through Reddit, two blog posts about how integers should behave in system languages (with hardware support):
>
> http://blog.regehr.org/archives/641
> http://blog.regehr.org/archives/642
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Not very convincing, since he proposes a change to existing 
architectures, and seems completely unaware of the overflow flag.
If you can change existing architectures, why not simply allow an 
exception to be generated if an overflow occurs?

Doesn't seem at all helpful to D.


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