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Re: [Help-smalltalk] Max/min value of any number class (maxVal/minVal) i


From: Holger Freyther
Subject: Re: [Help-smalltalk] Max/min value of any number class (maxVal/minVal) in gst?
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 08:37:40 +0100


> On 16. Oct 2018, at 15:30, Garreau, Alexandre <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi,

Hi!


> 
> It seems other platforms such as Squeak or Pharo have a message “maxVal”
> which gives the max value of a given class, such as “SmallInteger
> minVal” or “3 class minVal”, for instance.
> 
> Does GNU Smalltalk have anything, maybe incompatible, analog to this?  I
> guess this must not be that hard to get but I don’t know yet enough of
> SmallTalk (or even Smalltalk) so that to try to make that myself…

on a quick skim I have not noticed anything. In the C libgst there are
two macros that might be of help to add a primitive. MAX_ST_INT and
MIN_ST_INT. The values will be different on 32bit/64bit runtimes.

But the question is how would you use it?

holger


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