On Apr 14, 2009, at 11:44 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: > Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> On Apr 14, 2009, at 1:04 PM, Carl Witty wrote: >>> On x86 processors, dividing -2**31 by -1 gives a processor signal; >>> under Linux, this results in exiting the process with "Floating >>> point >>> exception". (Even though it's not floating point.) (Presumably, >>> the >>> same thing happens when dividing -2**63 by -1 on a 64-bit >>> processor; I >>> haven't tested.) >> >> Interesting corner case. This seems more like an overflow issue, and >> we're currently not trying to protect the user from those. > > Well, yes, but usually with overflows one just gets the overflowed > value > silently. With division overflow one crashes the application, which is > IMO much worse even if it is a very rare corner case. > > I think we should raise OverflowError here under the same > circumstances > as ZeroDivisionError.
Ah, I hadn't realized it segfaults (well, it does on my machine). OK, another check coming right up. - Robert _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
