Walter Bright wrote: > If there's any question about it, you can do a quick test and check what > the compiler generates with obj2asm. If it wasn't doing things > correctly, you bet people would have noticed by now. A divide that > doesn't work is going to be very, very obvious.
Actually I suspect that integer division with negative values is rare enough that a problem might escape notice for some time. Python uses floor division, which is 99% of the time the type of division I want. C++ uses truncating division, which is almost never what I want. D does not specify the type of division used, although if it uses IDIV then it uses truncating division. Result: in C++ (and D) I use my own library function to perform floor division instead of relying on the built-in division operator. Signed integer division never gets tested for negative values. -- Rainer Deyke - rain...@eldwood.com
