From -3029578831108137694 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,c063db358aabf0d8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!news-feed01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net!nntp.frontiernet.net!news.glorb.com!peer1.news.newnet.co.uk!194.159.246.34.MISMATCH!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!stump.algebra.com!devnull From: gennaro@this.is.invalid (Gennaro Prota) Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Integer division specification Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:42:39 GMT Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 30 Sender: mail2news@demon.net Approved: fjh@cs.mu.oz.au (Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++) Message-ID: References: <45d8adcb$0$7365$19deed1b@news.inter.NL.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.news.demon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1171993364 20751 158.152.254.254 (20 Feb 2007 17:42:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:42:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at csse.unimelb.edu.au X-Replace-Address: yes X-Path: comp-std-cpp-robomod!not-for-mail X-Received: (from fjh@localhost) by mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/Submit) id l1KHgdAa014299; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:42:39 +1100 (EST) X-Delivered-To: std-c++@mailman.ucar.edu X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.csse.unimelb.edu.au: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 trialware X-Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.std.c++:5640 On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:35:35 CST, Maarten Kronenburg wrote: >> Well, let me please do another attempt at getting a reply. I have a >> defect report concerning the specification of operator / and the >> proposed resolution would depend on whether truncation "towards -inf" >> is allowed or not. >> >> It would help everyone, not least the committee which would have to >> examine the DR, to know the answer to this (if it is already known >> :-)). >> >Genny, >Of course also I don't know the answer of this, because somewhere in the >world there may be hardware with a compiler where truncation is not towards >zero. All I know is that at least on x86 the truncation is toward zero. Thanks Maarten, I was wondering if they will synchronize with C99, which now imposes truncation towards zero. Since there was no reply from committee members I think I'll submit the DR with resolutions for both cases (though, at this point, synch with C99 looks a bit unlikely). Genny. --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.comeaucomputing.com/csc/faq.html ]