Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix undefined behaviour of shifting left signed values

[John Cowan]

Peter Bex scripsit:

> - We are using left shifts on signed types.  According to the C spec
>    this behaviour is undefined (which is completely retarded, IMHO).
>    The even more retarded fix is to simply cast to unsigned and back to
>    signed whereever this is done.  

Yeah, it reflects old processors.

> - We are dividing floating-point numbers by zero, which is apparently
>    undefined.  

Don't worry about that.  Any C compiler that ignored IEEE 754 constraints,
even though C doesn't assume them, would be ostracized by numerical
programmers.

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