[M3devel] the meaning of -FIRST(INTEGER)?

[Tony Hosking]

But a given implementation (as in all of the implementations we currently support) can assume integer overflow is OK and also a 2-s complement representation.  What's the problem?

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On 24 Jan 2010, at 08:16, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 04:24:05AM -0500, Tony Hosking wrote:
>> Agreed.  If we allow overflow at run-time we should at compile-time.
> 
> But perhaps a compile-time warning is in order for overflow -- in cases 
> where we do the arithmetic at compile-time, anyway.  We may avoid 
> run-time checks for speed reasons, but there's no such constraint 
> on compile-time checks.
> 
> -- hendrik

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