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Re: [bash-bug] Can arithmetic evaluation trap more than just division by


From: Roman Rakus
Subject: Re: [bash-bug] Can arithmetic evaluation trap more than just division by zero?
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:09:39 +0200
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On 04/06/2010 03:59 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
"Dr. Werner Fink"<werner@suse.de>  writes:

On x86_64 the gdb shows:

  Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.
  0x0000000000462cd5 in exp2 () at expr.c:761
  761             val1 /= val2;
  (gdb) print val1
  $1 = -9223372036854775808
  (gdb) print val2
  $2 = -1

which is strange.
Not at all.  Overflow invokes undefined behaviour.

Andreas.

But why there is no overflow on 32bit system?
RR




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