[RFC][BZ #15799] Make div cross-platform.
Ondřej Bílka
neleai@seznam.cz
Fri Oct 25 20:16:00 GMT 2013
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 08:09:20PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Ondrej Bilka wrote:
>
> > Hi, following bug report complains that division does not satisfy c
> > standard.
>
> The bug report is about code that can never be executed - that is, the
> logic errors in it are of no significance. Everything after the
> assignments to result.quot and result.rem, except for the return
> statement, should just be deleted as irrelevant given C99 semantics for
> division, and those assignments should be left unchanged. This should be
> done for all of div, ldiv and lldiv. This code is not shared with gnulib,
> so random C90 compilers are irrelevant to it.
>
Then close that bug as invalid.
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