Re: bug in Hugs 1.4 and 1.3c arithmetic (Number library)

[Simon Marlow]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl R. Witty) writes:

> I looked into this some more, and it seems to be a "feature" of the X86.

Yep, from my x86 manual:

        Protected mode exceptions for DIV

                Interrupt 0 if the quotient is too large to fit in the
                designated register.

INT_MIN / -1   is 1 larger than INT_MAX.

Cheers,
        Simon

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