[M3devel] integer division rounding?

[Tony Hosking]

What do Pascal and Modula-2 and Oberon do?  M3 is in the same family...

On 17 Jan 2010, at 04:36, Jay K wrote:

> Modula-3 apparently specifies integer division as rounding down.
> http://www.modula3.com/cm3/doc/reference/arithmetic.html
> 
> C used to leave it unspecified. So it could be fast.
> Fortran rounded to zero.
> C's ldiv function rounds to zero.
> C now rounds to zero with C99.
>   The rationale was that nobody using Fortran seemed to mind.
> Java apparently rounds toward zero.
> C# apparently rounds toward zero.
> 
> 
> I'm assuming we are stuck being different here?
> 
>  - Jay
> 

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