#3304: define gcd 0 0 = 0
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Reporter: stevec | Owner:
Type: proposal | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.2.1
Component: libraries/base | Version: 7.1
Resolution: fixed | Keywords:
Testcase: | Blockedby:
Difficulty: Unknown | Os: Unknown/Multiple
Blocking: | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple
Failure: None/Unknown |
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Comment(by daniel.is.fischer):
I thought so, too, for a while, but when I tried that, I ran into gcd
minBound (-1), which throws the overflowError, so unfortunately we have to
call abs on the arguments (or go via Integer for all types).
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3304#comment:20>
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