Fair enough, but I would like an explanation as to why it's necessary,
because the reason for testing -1 in particular is very unclear, and I
wonder if there's a known misbehaviour with a particular division
function with -1.
Kit
On 11/05/2023 21:27, Wayne Sherman wrote:
On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 11:42 AM J. Gareth Moreton wrote:
This is the code block in question (ncnv.pas, starting at line 3397)
The git "blame" function shows who last made changes:
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/blame/main/compiler/ncnv.pas?page=4#L3396
Most of that code was added 2 years ago in this commit:
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/commit/ea11517d27fa00f40b626e47213f0caa8832d155
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