A strange div bug on Linux x86_64, (both dmd & ldc2): long -5000 / size_t 2 = 9223372036854773308

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Thursday, 13 August 2020 at 23:28:43 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> And before somebody tells me this is too verbose: we already 
> have to do this for short ints, no thanks to the recent change 
> that arithmetic involving anything smaller than int will 
> implicitly promote to int first:

That's not actually a recent change; it has always been like 
that, inherited from C.

D's difference is that C will implicitly convert back to the 
small type and D won't without an explicit cast. Drives me nuts 
and very rarely actually catches real mistakes.

The most recent change here is even like `-a` will trigger the 
error. It always did the promotion but it used to cast right back 
and now will error instead. Ugh.