On Jan 07 2023, Greg Wooledge wrote: > The variable l is a modulus, so its largest possible value is 127772. > If the code simply said "l = ret % 127773;" then it wouldn't even be > an issue. But the % was rewritten, presumably for efficiency.
Presumably the assumption was that two divides are more costly than a divide and a multiply (although nowadays, compilers will try to combine the two divides if the target architecture has a divmod insn). -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."
