yep. -2147483648
- byron
On 11 May 1998, Carl R. Witty wrote:
> Byron Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I did not observe this behavior with Hugs 1.4 (Jan98) on the following
> > machines (produced with uname -a):
> > AIX dtt051 2 3 000249045700
> > SunOS lassi 5.5.1 Generic_103640-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1
> > HP-UX dtthp237 B.10.20 A 9000/770 2009624264 two-user license
> > SunOS cran 4.1.3_U1 17 sun4m
> >
> >
> > - byron
>
> So what answer do you get? I'm guessing (from reading Number.hs) that
> it prints:
> -2147483648
>
> If so, this is a bug in the Number library; the correct answer would
> be:
> Program error: mult overflow!
>
> Carl Witty
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> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 12:53:24 -0700
> > From: "Carl R. Witty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: bug in Hugs 1.4 and 1.3c arithmetic (Number library)
> >
> > In Hugs 1.4 (January 1998), if I type the following commands:
> > :l Number
> > (minBound::Number) * -1
> > hugs dies with the error message "Unexpected signal".
>
