Re: Detecting numeric overflows
Евгений Пермяков <permeakra <at> gmail.com>
2012-07-30 20:43:53 GMT
On 07/31/2012 12:04 AM, Artyom Kazak wrote:
> Евгений Пермяков <permeakra <at> gmail.com> писал в своём письме Mon,
30
> Jul 2012 09:47:48 +0300:
>
>> Can someone tell me if there are any primitives, that used to detect
>> machine type overflows, in ghc haskell ? I perfectly understand, that
>> I can build something based on preconditioning of variables, but this
>> will kill any performance, if needed.
>
> In GHC.Prim — primitives addIntC# and subIntC#:
>
>> addIntC# :: Int# -> Int# -> (#Int#, Int##)
>> Add with carry. First member of result is (wrapped) sum; second
>> member is 0 iff no overflow occured.
>
>> subIntC# :: Int# -> Int# -> (#Int#, Int##)
>> Subtract with carry. First member of result is (wrapped) difference;
>> second member is 0 iff no overflow occured.
>
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Still no way to detect overflow in *.
Strangely enough, I found some relevant descriptions in *.pp in dev
branch, so I expect them in 7.6.1. They applies to native-size Word and
Int only.
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