Short of re-implementing parseint, is there a way to work around this?
I was thinking of something like this (for Int64 only)
try
num = parseint(Int64, str)
if num != parse(str) throw(FOO) end
num
catch ... end
But I don't know if it would work properly on 32 bits CPUs.
-- Pierre-Yves
On Saturday, November 23, 2013 5:07:47 PM UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>
> This is now done except for 128-bit integers, where LLVM's overflow
> detection is broken on some platforms. Issue opened to track the 128-bit
> problems: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/4905.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Eric Davies <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> Thanks, glad to see this being worked on :)
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 18:15:17 UTC-6, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>>
>>> I started some work on this: https://github.com/JuliaLang/
>>> julia/pull/4875.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Stefan Karpinski
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, this should raise an error on overflow:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/704b852d54cb9b02f07ea084b102de
>>>> c8fb2dca2a/base/string.jl#L1472
>>>>
>>>> Up-for-grabs issue created: https://github.com/JuliaLang/
>>>> julia/issues/4874.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Eric Davies <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> julia> integer("9223372036854775807")
>>>>> 9223372036854775807
>>>>>
>>>>> julia> integer("9223372036854775808")
>>>>> -9223372036854775808
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm looking for a function that will error (or return some indication
>>>>> of validity) on large integers rather than failing. Does such a thing
>>>>> exist? It's my opinion that parseint should do this, even though it
>>>>> currently performs the same as above.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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