Re: integer math warnings

[David Bateman]

Michael D. Godfrey wrote:
> On 3/8/10 3:39 AM, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
> > hi all,
> >
> > I have learnt that Matlab is removing the integer math warnings in the
> > newest release:
> > http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/rn/bsdgysw-1.html#bse_gbf-1 
> >
> >
> > Frankly, these warnings only make things more complicated for Octave,
> > too. They force the use of global flags in the saturated integer math
> > implementations,
> > which is ugly, problematic with possible threading, and probably slows
> > things down somewhat.
> >
> > Does anyone rely on these? Is it OK if we remove them, too?
> >
> >    
> Fine with me :-)
As I added these flags I suppose I should give my blessing to remove 
them. Frankly, I added them as being matlab compatible and they seemed 
to make sense to help find over/underflows in algorithms. And as I'd 
worked with fixed point algorithms in the past this seemed to make sense.

If matlab gets rid of them, presumely for reasons of speed, I suppose 
the advantages of having them comes down purely to finding 
under/overflows..... I'd say drop them in that case

D.


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