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Re: underflow detection
- To: Ben Elliston <bje at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: underflow detection
- From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:09:59 -0500
- Cc: cgen at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <15013.27540.810939.986529@scooby.apac.redhat.com>
Hi -
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:58:28AM +1100, Ben Elliston wrote:
: [...]
: Is it sufficient to test if `x' (or `y') is negative to detect
: underflow?
No -- if x=1 and y=-1, there is no underflow.
But perhaps this is not what you mean.
- FChE
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